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Persian

UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈpɜː^rʃ^ən/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(pûr′zhən, -shən)

Per•sian (pûr′zhən, -shən),USA pronunciation adj.

Language Varieties, Place Namesof or pertaining to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.

Place Names, Language Varietiesa member of the native peoples of Iran, descended in part from the ancient Iranians.
Place Names, Language Varietiesa citizen of ancient Persia.
Language Varietiesan Iranian language, the principal language of Iran and western Afghanistan, in its historical and modern forms. Cf. Old Persian, Pahlavi, Farsi.
Architecturea figure of a man used as a column.
Furniture Persians. See Persian blinds.

Middle French; replacing Old English Persisc (see -ish¹)
1325–75; Persi(a) + -an; replacing Middle English Persien

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

Persian /ˈpɜːʃən/ adj

of or relating to ancient Persia or modern Iran, their inhabitants, or their languages

a native, citizen, or inhabitant of modern Iran; an Iranian
the language of Iran or Persia in any of its ancient or modern forms, belonging to the West Iranian branch of the Indo-European family
See also Avestan, Pahlavi², Farsi

'Persian' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

Abbas I - Abu Dhabi - Afghanistan - algorism - angary - Arabia - Aramaic - Artaxerxes I - Artaxerxes II - asafoetida - Assyria - attar - Avicenna - ayatollah - azure - Babism - bagh - Baha'í - Baha'ullah - Bahrain - baksheesh - bazaar - Behistun - borax - bulbul - bulgur - Bushehr - Cambyses - caracul - caravan - caravanserai - carboy - Chaldea - check - china - chuddar - cummerbund - cushy - Cyrus - Dari - Darius III - dervish - divan - Dubai - durbar - Eşfahān - Euphrates - Ezra - Farsi - Fertile Crescent

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writing/spelling "gh" [transliteration of sounds from Persian/Farsi]

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