This points to a post-exilic date of composition both because of the use of the Persian period term and because Judah had a king before the exile.

Over the years, the term ' dagger ' has been used to describe a wide variety of thrusting knives, including knives that feature only a single cutting edge, such as the European rondel dagger or the Persian pesh-kabz, or, in some instances, no cutting edge at all, such as the stiletto of the Renaissance.

The term " king " would not be difficult ; since the Persian Monarch was known as the King of Kings, a lesser lord may have called himself a king.

After c. 500 BC the Persian term " Paradise " ( Hebrew פרדס, pardes ), meaning a royal garden or hunting-park, gradually became a synonym for Eden.

The usage of the word Hindu was popularized for Arabs and further west by the Arabic term al-Hind referring to the land of the people who live across river Indus and the Persian term Hindū referring to all Indians.

Although imperialist practices have existed for thousands of years, the term " Age of Imperialism " generally refers to the activities of nations such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in the early 18th through the middle 20th centuries, e. g., the " The Great Game " in Persian lands, the " Scramble for Africa " and the " Open Door Policy " in China.

In the context of the age and period it held the meaning of seeking or forming part of a cultural entity, that of iudea, the Greek derivative of Persian Yehud, and can be compared with hellenismos, meaning acceptance of Hellenic cultural norms ( the conflict between iudaismos and hellenismos lay behind the Maccabeean revolt and hence the invention of the term iudaismos ).

The Persian word for love is eshgh, derived from the Arabic ishq, however is considered by most to be too stalwart a term for interpersonal love and is more commonly substituted for ' doost dashtan ' (' liking ').

Mahan first used the term in his article " The Persian Gulf and International Relations ," published in September 1902 in the National Review, a British journal.

It is the term officially recognized and promoted in 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language.

According to Shahnameh ancient Persian book, the hero Rostam was the first person who was born with this method and term رستمينه ( rostamineh ) is corresponded to Caesarean.

Persian Jews and Karaite Jews use the term kenesa, which is derived from Aramaic, and some Arabic-speaking Jews use knis.

Algebra was significantly developed by Persian scientist Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī during this time in his landmark text, Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala, from which the term algebra is derived.

This term also gave Lithuanian žąsìs, Irish gé ( goose, from Old Irish géiss ), Latin anser, Greek chēn, Albanian gatë ( heron ), Sanskrit hamsī, Finnish hanhi, Avestan zāō, Polish gęś, Russian гусь, Czech husa, and Persian ghāz.

This is considered a misunderstanding of the term pazend, which actually refers to the use of the Avestan alphabet in writing the Zand and other Middle Persian religious texts, as an expression meaning " in Zend ".

In the realm of a shah ( or a more lofty derived ruler style ), a prince of the blood was logically called shahzada as the term is derived from shah using the Persian patronymic suffix-zāde or-zāda, " son, descendant ".

* Shahbanu ( Persian شهبانو, Šahbānū ): Persian term using the word Shah and the Perian suffix-banu (" lady "): Empress, in modern times, the official title of Empress Farah Pahlavi.

* Shahdokht ( Persian شاهدخت Šāhdoxt ) is also another term derived from shah using the Persian patronymic suffix-dokht " daughter, female descendant ", to address the Princess of the imperial households.

* Satrap, the term in Western languages for a governor of a Persian province, is a distortion of xšaθrapāvan, literally " guardian of the realm ", which derives from the word xšaθra, an Old Persian word meaning " realm, province " and related etymologically to shah.

Asbestos is a long term health risk for urban explorers, along with breathing in contaminants from dried bird feces, otherwise known as pigeon lung, a form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

Many species of bird may be considered partly or exclusively predatory ; however, in ornithology the term " bird of prey " applies only to birds of the families listed below.

Taken literally the term " bird of prey " has a wide meaning that includes many birds that hunt and feed on animals and also birds that eat very small insects.

The first recorded use of the term aviator ( aviateur in French ) was in 1887, as a variation of ' aviation ', from the Latin avis ( meaning bird ), coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne ( Aviation or Air Navigation ).

The Chickadees are named after the chickadee, a species of small bird ; the phrase " littlest chickadee " also suggests " my little chickadee ", a term of endearment classically used by W. C. Fields.

The bird has also been given the name " Australian Crane ", a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithological artist John Gould in his Birds of Australia.

As opposed to " fowl ", " poultry " is a term for any kind of domesticated bird or bird captive-raised for meat, eggs, or feathers ; ostriches, for example, are sometimes kept as poultry, but are neither gamefowl nor waterfowl.

In colloquial speech, however, the term " fowl " is often used near-synonymously with " poultry " or even " bird ", and many languages do not distinguish between " poultry " and " fowl ".

The term ' bird ' can then be replaced with a thing that cannot fly.

The term birdwatching was first used in 1901 ; bird was introduced as a verb in 1918.

Twitching is a British term used to mean " the pursuit of a previously-located rare bird.

The term twitcher, sometimes misapplied as a synonym for birder, is reserved for those who travel long distances to see a rare bird that would then be ticked, or checked off, on a list.

The origin of the term is a practical joke where inexperienced campers are told about a bird or animal called the snipe as well as a usually preposterous method of catching it, such as running around the woods carrying a bag or making strange noises such as banging rocks together.

The term pica originates from the Latin word for magpie, a bird that is reputed because of their unusual eating behaviors where they are known to eat almost anything.

Saxicola derives from Latin saxum (" rock ") + incola (" dwelling "); rubetra is a Latin term for a small bird.

The binomen is due to Linné, derived from περνης, an Aristotelian term for a bird of prey, and Latin apivorus " bee-eating " ( although bees are much less important than wasps in the bird's diet ).

During his term, the common loon became the Minnesota state bird, several state parks were established, the Taconite Amendment was passed, as was Fair Housing legislation.

His campaign help for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( CDU ) prompted some of his former comrades to call him a Wryneck ( German term: Wendehals ; a bird that can turn its head 180 degrees ; popular term used to mock Communists who have turned capitalist ).

Aepyornis maximus is commonly known as the ' elephant bird ', a term that apparently originated from Marco Polo's account of the rukh in 1298, although he was apparently referring to an eagle-like bird strong enough to " seize an elephant with its talons ".

The term " conure " is used primarily in bird keeping, though it has appeared in some scientific journals.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Following the term of service in Japan, each emissary returns for a brief visit to the campus to interpret his experience to the college community.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

Does your company have a program for selecting and developing sales and marketing management personnel for the longer term??

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

no sort of pricing at all for any goods or services, and therefore no market in the economic sense of the term.

The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.

Indeed, one school superintendent in a large city objects to the use of the term comprehensive high school for the senior high schools in his city, because these schools do not offer strictly vocational programs.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.