"persian" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as an adjective to describe something from the region of Persia (now modern-day Iran). For example: "This carpet has a beautiful persian design."
When an Iranian parliamentarian mentions nostalgically that Bahrain was once a Persian province, a wave of Sunni suspicion erupts.Indeed, blaming foreigners is standard practice whenever a ripple of disharmony laps the island monarchy's shore.
We went to a great Persian restaurant – there are lots of international places to eat.
I offered to read her some romantic Persian poetry, but she told me to perform a sex act that just would not have been possible.
@lactography JE With the trend for eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food showing no sign of dropping off, wines from the region, natural partners for the mix of freshness and spice in Lebanese or Persian dishes, are increasingly turning up on restaurant lists.
The most common term to define such persons today is to refer to them as "two-spirit" people, but in the past feminine males were sometimes referred to as "berdache" by early French explorers in North America, who adapted a Persian word "bardaj", meaning an intimate male friend.
Nuts are the one constant, credited in the Oxford Companion to Food to the Persian influence on the regime's kitchen.
Its founder, Mohammad-Javad Shakouri Moghaddam, is also the CEO of Aparat's parent company Sabaldea, which is behind a number of other successful startup projects in Iran, including Cloob.com, a Persian-language social-networking site with more than 3 million users, and Mihanblog.com, a free blog hosting service.
Even if they do see Iran as so big a market, they would have to establish a Persian-language Amazon.
Iran may declare that its objective is to chase America from the Persian Gulf, but it is Iranian recalcitrance that prompts its neighbours to host American bases and spend lavishly on American arms.
The bulk of the increase in their production is light crude, but American refineries are still mainly configured to deal with the heavy stuff a legacy of past reliance on imports from Latin America and the Persian Gulf.Boring and drillingLegally speaking, the line between light crude and refined products is blurry.
Because the western majors are shut out of the cheapest and largest oil fields chiefly in the Persian Gulf they must now look for oil in more complex formations, such as "ultra-deep" water, and in risky non-OPEC regions such as west Africa.
