Sentence examples for persian sources from inspiring English sources

According to Persian sources, the bull by its death gave birth to the sky, the planets, the earth, the animals, and the plants; thus Mithra became the creator of life.

Ms. Sikander scales up a 2006 piece titled "The Illustrated Page," framing one of her typically updated Mughal landscapes with borders that conjure up Chinese and Persian sources, as well as William Morris.

Written during the reign of a medieval queen so powerful they called her King Tamar, Rustaveli's tale of an Arabian monarch who abdicates in favour of his daughter, and a melancholy knight in love with an Indian princess, transformed Persian sources into a Georgian epic that married Platonism with Sufism.

In 243 AD, Emperor Gordian III's army retook the Roman cities of Hatra, Nisibis and Carrhae from the Sassanids after defeating the Sassanids at the Battle of Resaena but what happened next is unclear: Persian sources claim that Gordian was defeated and killed in the Battle of Misikhe but Roman sources mention this battle only as an insignificant setback and suggest that Gordian died elsewhere.

The Persian source is the word توفان tūfān ("storm"; also Arabic طوفان (ṭūfān, "to turn round"), Hindi तूफ़ान (tūfān)) from the verb tūfīdan (, "to roar, to blow furiously").

Occasionally consulting a Persian-speaking source like Professor Cole could help you a lot.

While in exile he studied history, examining Persian and Arabic historical sources.

The government jammed phones and Internet service through much of the day, and the BBC's Persian service, a crucial source of information for many Iranians, suspended broadcasts, saying the government had been jamming it since Ayatollah Montazeri's death on Sunday.

According to the BBC's Persian-language Web site, sources close to the blogger, Hossein Derakhshan, said that the death penalty had been requested in a closed session of court in which he was accused of charges including "cooperating with hostile governments" and insulting Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Mr. Ahmadinejad.

Persian is a fundamental source for all Shiites (Shi'a).

The higher register vocabulary of Hindi and Urdu also differs in that it comes from two different sources — Sanskrit and Persian respectively.