Parsi
Speech parts
1. Parsi - Noun
2. Parsi - Adjective
Meaning
a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term Farsi was first used in English in 1926, while Parsi dates to 1790.
Depictions of parties, funerals and conversations about values provide a window on contemporary Parsi life in Mumbai.
An elaboration of this allusion is found only in a late Parsi commentary.
First, one has to be either a Hindu, Jain, Parsi, Christian, Sikh or Buddhist.
However, a 2004 study in which Parsi mitochondrial DNA (matrilineal) was compared with that of the Iranians and Gujaratis determined that Parsis are genetically closer to Gujaratis than to Iranians.