Parsiism

Variant of Parsee

or Parsi

noun

a member of a Zoroastrian religious sect in India descended from a group of Persian refugees who fled from the Muslim persecutions of the 7th and 8th cent.

Origin: Pers Pārsī, a Persian < Pārs, Persia

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