Old Persian

noun

1. an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. : OPers

Old Persian

noun

1. an ancient language belonging to the West Iranian branch of the Indo-European family, recorded in cuneiform inscriptions of the 6th to the 4th centuries bc See also Middle Persian

Example Sentences

The animalism of half-exposures and suggestions of whole exposures is not any more Japanese than it was old-Persian.

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Accordingly over 200 proper and personal names in Armenia were Old Persian, as well as 700 names of things.

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It was one of the many great ideas he imported into, or educed from, the old Persian Astronomer.

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If we count in the derivative forms of these words we get at least 2000 Old Persian words.

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