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And for decade it's "daheh" and for millennium it's "hezAAreh".
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, shahram rohani wrote:
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dear Sen, HI
the other Persian word for century is "sadeh".
Yours/Rohani
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From: Sen & Sonja <sen.so...@casema.nl>
Subject: Re: Unity of nations
To: "Baha'i Studies" <bahai-st@list.jccc.edu>
Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 10:52 AM
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On 8 Feb 2009 at 8:54, Benjamin La Framboise wrote:
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Sorry...I had question I forgot to ask:
What is the term/phrase/etc. in Arabic or Persian that
means 100-year
span of time? Does one exist? Did
Baha'u'llah or Abdu'l-Baha use
this term/phrase, ever?
Sure: they can just say "100 years" (Will and
Testament p 20) or "700
years" (Iqan page 9). The Persian is sad (100) saal
(year). (Persian
doesn't use a plural noun in this situation). Using
another word for
'year', in the Iqan page 9, "for over a
hundred years" is sad sanah.
Similarly, there is no specific term for
"millenium"; but 'one
thousand years" (hezaar saal) is used often.
I agree that it is much clearer when we look at the persian
terms
translated as 'century' (qarn and `asr) and see how
Shoghi Effendi
translates them in other places. But not everyone can read
the script
and work out the sentences, to really follow that argument
Sen
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