parasang

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpaɹəsaŋ/    美 /ˈpɛɹəsæŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity, originally the distance travelled in one hour, and generally assumed to be equivalent to about six kilometres.
    — To see so much difference betwixt words and deeds, so many parasangs betwixt tongue and heart […].

词形变化

parasangs plural parasang plural

词源

From Latin parasanga, from Ancient Greek παρασάγγης (parasángēs), from unattested Old Persian *frasanhvah (indigenously attested only in Middle Iranian onwards); compare Middle Persian [script needed] (frasang /⁠plsng⁠/, “frasang (4 Roman miles)”) (whence Persian فرسنگ (farsang)). Doublet of farsang and farsakh.
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