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Middle Persian

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Middle Persian
n
(Linguistics / Languages) the classical form of modern Persian, spoken from about 300 ad to about 900 See also Pahlavi2


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28 PK6035 In the first third of this monograph concerned with linguistic borrowings from Iranian languages into Classical Syriac (a literary and liturgical Aramaic dialect attested from the first to thirteenth century CE) discusses features of Syriac and various historical moments of contact between the language and Old and Middle Iranian languages, Parthian, Greek, and Middle Persian.
The most reliable and most widely accepted among these is that the name is a Middle Persian compound of Bag "god" + dad "given", translating to "god-given" or "God's gift".
The word zij is probably derived from Middle Persian, and was used by Muslim astronomers to refer to astronomical handbooks containing astronomical tables and often explanatory material.
 
 
 
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