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Par⋅see

  [pahr-see, pahr-see]
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–noun
1. an Indian Zoroastrian descended from Persian Zoroastrians who went to India in the 7th and 8th centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
2. the Middle Persian dialect of the Parsee scriptures.
Also, Parsi.

Origin:
1605–15; < Pers Pārsī Persian, equiv. to Pārs Persia + -ī suffix of appurtenance
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Par·si also Par·see   (pär'sē, pär-sē')   
n.   pl. Par·sis also Par·sees
A member of a Zoroastrian religious sect in India.

[Persian Pārsī, from Pārs, Persia, from Old Persian Pārsā.]
Par'sism (-sĭz'əm) n.
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Parsee 
1615, descendant of Zoroastrians who fled to India 7c.-8c. after Muslim conquest of Persia, from O.Pers. parsi "Persian." In M.E., Parsees meant "Persians."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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