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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Iranian language used in Persia during the reign of the Sassanids.
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- proper noun The ancestor of modern
Persian spoken from around 300 BC till about 800 AD, evolving fromOld Persian .
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Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Zeke already compares the former word of this pair to Middle Persian aspand, another Indo-European language, and this fits my expectation.
Death and daffodils 2010
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The Old Iranian form would be *spanta, with no initial a- which appeared during the transition to Middle Persian.
Death and daffodils 2010
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The inscriptions that are available to us are from quite late in the Old Persian period, and already show a number of signs of the nightmare that is Middle Persian during which the language turned its whole inflectional system inside out.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009
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As I mentioned earlier, in Middle Persian the entire verbal system turned itself inside out.
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More than fifty mint centres are known through abbreviations in Middle Persian but not all can be identified with certainty.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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The Tibetans, for example, translated “tayi” as “stag-gzig” (pronounced “tazig”), undoubtedly deriving from the Middle Persian “tazig” or the Parthian “tazhig.”
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis) 2006
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It could be argued that Zhang-zhung derived the form tagzig from the Middle Persian “tazig,” used in the early period of the Sassanid Empire (226 – 650), which extended over not only Iran, but also Bactria.
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Perhaps this indicates his familiarity with the Middle Persian term burxan, meaning prophet, used for “Buddha” in Sogdian and Uighur Buddhist texts, and earlier in Manichaean texts for all prophets.
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