Persian

(uncountable) The Persian language, or a family of languages spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

(countable) A person of Persian descent.

(Canada, chiefly Northwestern Ontario) A pastry local to the Thunder Bay region in Canada often compared to either a cinnamon bun or a donut topped with pink icing.

There is of those Persians several lengths.

1696, J. F. Merchant?, The merchant's ware-house laid open:

A thin silk fabric, formerly used for linings.

(architecture) Any of a set of male figures used instead of columns to support an entablature.

en-noun

Persian (countable and uncountable, plural Persians)

/ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/

From Middle English percynne, from Middle French persien, from Italian persiano, from Medieval Latin Persiānus, from Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /Pārsa/, “Persia”) (compare Early Classical Persian پارس (pārs) or modern Iranian Persian فارس (fârs), where the shift p > f. Equivalent to Persia + -ian.


Persian

Of or pertaining to the Persian language.

en-adj

Persian (comparative more Persian, superlative most Persian)

more Persian (comparative)
most Persian (superlative)

persico (today almost only in geographical terms as Golfo Persico)

Persies

of or pertaining to the Persian language

/ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/


Persian

...as it seems from an Ovidian or Persian standpoint and also, perhaps, from the comic standpoints of Plautus or Caecilius...

1998, Stephen Hinds, Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry:

Of or pertaining to Persius (Roman writer)

/ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/