parasang

par·a·sang

[par-uh-sang]
noun
an ancient Persian unit of distance, equal to about 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
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parasang (ˈpærəˌsæŋ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a Persian unit of distance equal to about 5.5 km or 3.4 miles
 
[C16: via Latin and Greek from a Persian word related to modern Persian farsang]

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Parasang is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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