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Definition of Parasang
1. n. A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.
Definition of Parasang
1. Noun. A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity. Functionally comparable to the European league, and presumed to have varied between two and four miles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parasang
1. a Persian unit of distance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasang
Literary usage of Parasang
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1843)
"... to one parasang and one-third; above the terrestrial is the aqueous sphere ;
above which is that of fire; beyond which is the aerial, over the celestial ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"You would eee him snuffing it up his nose, and swearing that he would know its
fragrance at the distance of a parasang. The flowers of benjamin cost about ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"It is also certain that 10800 of these cubits made one parasang, 5670 metres or
3'523 Eng. stat. miles. When we consider that the Persians had probably long ..."
4. Pahlavi Texts: Part I and II by Edward William West (1901)
"A parasang * is a measure as much as a far-seeing man may look out, see a beast
of burden, and make known that it is black or white. 3. ..."
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