Crossword-Solution: FARSAKH
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| PERSIAN distance measure | 2 answers |
| measure Persian | 6 answers |
| Persian measure | 8 answers |
| ETHIOPIAN measure | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
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Sentences with FARSAKH (5)
The common literary measures of length are these:3 Kadam (mans foot) = 1 Khatwah (pace): 1000 paces = 1 Mil (mile); 3 miles = 1 Farsakh (parasang); and 4 parasangs = 1 Barid or post.
The entire length of the river was four farsakh, or twelve miles; the breadth of it four miles; and its depth, eight or nine feet.
CHAPTER XL _Badjirs_--Below the sand level--Chappar service between Yezd and Kerman--The elasticity of a farsakh--Sar-i-Yezd--An escort--Where three provinces meet--Etiquette--Robbers' impunity--A capital story--Zen-u-din--The Serde Kuh range--Desert--Sand accumulations--Kermanshah--The Darestan and Godare Hashimshan Mountains--Chappar Khana inscriptions and ornamentations by travellers--Shemsh.
The "farsakh"--the most elastic measure ever invented--decreases here to just above three miles, whereas further north it averaged four miles.
The Amir, or Governor, does not live in Birjand itself but half a farsakh, or two miles, across the plains to the S.S.E., where he has a handsome residence in a pretty garden.