Persia. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Persia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword:

Persia.

Principal English Translation:

Persia, the place name; now Iran (central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 146–147.

Attestations from sources in English:

oticmochihuili centetl yancuic citlalin in quimonextili Eintin tlahtoque yn ompa inchan in itocayocan Persia. yn tlapcopa yn ompa hualquiça tonatiuh = You made a new star that showed itself to the three rulers there in their home in a place called Persia (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 146–147.

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Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods