Iranian dialect

Usage examples of parsi.

As a Parsi, Dr Daruwalla was descended from Persian Zoroastrians who had come to India in the seventh and eighth centuries to escape Muslim persecution.

Only a fellow Parsi would know that English had been his veritable mother tongue, and that the doctor would have learned his Hindi in school.

At the Duckworth Club, Dhar spent most of lunch listening to Dr Daruwalla go on and on about this new offense to the Parsis: how the recent Parsi dead had been overlooked by the vultures attending to Mr Lai on the golf course.

In reverence of the great Dr Lowji Daruwalla, rigidity of the spine was a habit ferociously maintained by the old Parsi steward Mr Sethna.

Although old Lowji was a Parsi, he was as mocking of the true believers of the Zoroastrian faith as he was of any true believers.

The old Parsi would never have imagined that Dr Daruwalla was thinking about himself.

Garden, the Parsi steward allowed himself a rare moment of familiarity with a passing waiter.

Parsi community, because the Towers of Silence were the burial wells for the Parsi dead.

As a Parsi and a practicing Zoroastrian, the old steward had reacted predictably to the posters for the newest Inspector Dhar absurdity.

It struck the old Parsi as an awkward moment to bring them the menus, but he knew he needed to be near her purse.

Instinctively, she caught them, while the old Parsi staggered past her and collided with the all-important chair.

Apparently, the famous tea-pouring Parsi also fancied himself a promising policeman.

Jewish ritual, together with the religious rites of the Christians, strongly influenced the definite shape given to that of Islam, while indirect influence of the Parsi religion is at least probable.

Steven and his three friends had spent time near Bombay, where they might have met Parsi thought and begun to develop a kind of neo-Zoroastrianism, fire-reverence with the Parsi tendency toward secrecy and an appreciation for the metaphysics of change.

My Parsi master took me to meet immortals, men who could pierce themselves and not bleed, be bitten by cobras and not die.