parsi

noun

1. A member of the larger and older of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent (the other community being that of the Iranis).
2. A Persian.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of, or pertaining to, the larger and older of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent.
2. (not-comparable)Persian.

   “The specimen No. 1 in Plate XVII., is copied from the end of a very beautiful manuscript of the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris, containing the celebrated heroic poem of Ferdusi, intitled Shah-Nameh, or the Book of Kings; a composition of 60,000 verses, written in the tenth century in the Parsi dialect, which has become the common language of Persia.”

   “It was perhaps this picture of awakening nature in a mountain valley, which a thousand years ago inspired that great Tadzhik mountaineer, the immortal founder of classical Parsi poetry, Rudaki: […]”

   “[…] in the Parsi “zone of influence”); written poetry began to appear in the basic dialects of the Kurd language and in Pashto, though medieval literature in these languages did not reach any significant development.”

name

1. The Persian language.

   “Parsi was a heterogeneous language, each author enlarging it with something typical of his native dialect. However, it was the Parsi of the first poetic creations, the Parsi of Mawaraannahr and Khurasan, that acquired normative significance, especially for poetry, and some of its specific properties are still extant in the Tadjik language.”

   “Parsi was again declared to be the official language and all other languages, including Azari that does not even belong to the Iranian language group, were demoted to local dialects.”