a native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Persia (or Iran), or a person of Persian descent.
The ancient Assyrians, Persians , Greeks, Romans and East Indians used it to treat certain illnesses.
the Iranian language of modern Iran, written in Arabic script.
Since the 1970s, a growing number of Kurds have rediscovered their non-Turkish roots, based in part on Kurdish, an Indo-European language related to Persian .