Wiktionary
n. (context now historical English) A Persian measure of distance, equivalent to about four miles.
Wikipedia
Farsang may refer to:
- parasang, an Iranian or Persian (which also includes Iraq) unit of measurement for how far a man can walk in one day.
- An Islamic folk character
- :hu:Farsang, a Hungarian carnival that precedes the annual Busójárás celebration
Usage examples of "farsang".
A little past noon, smoke and flames sprang up from the steppe, about half a farsang east of the army's line of travel.
For all the ferocity and passion he displayed, the nearest Khamorth might have been a thousand farsangs away.
Sure enough, there were the nomads, perhaps half a farsang to the north.
If Roshnani was going to tell Denak about his performance, he didn't want to be anywhere within fifty farsangs when she did it.
The magnitude of suffering spread out over a farsang of ground appalled him.
And third, Mashiz is a hundred farsangs closer to Videssos than the plateau, and Videssos is more important to us most times than our northwestern frontier.
Frada said after an exchange of elbows with some noble from a hundred farsangs west of Vek Rud domain.