Meaning of فرنگ | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Frank, French
   archaic
2. Francia
   archaic
3. crusader
   archaic
4. France
   dated
5. European
   archaic
6. Western world, especially Europe
   dated
7. Christian
   archaic

Examples

“1184–1291, Saadi, Golestan از صحبت یاران دمشقم ملالتی پدید آمده بود، سر در بیابان قدس نهادم و با حیوانات انس گرفتم تا وقتی که اسیر قید فرنگ شدم و در خندق طرابلس با جهودانم به کارگل داشتند. az suhbat-i yârân-i damišqam malâlati padîd âmada bûd, sar dar biyâbân-i quds nahâdam u bâ hayvânât uns giriftam tâ vaqtî ki asîr-i qayd-i farang šudam u dar xandaq-i tarâbulus bâ jahûdânam ba kârgil dâštand.”

I was upset from my Damascene friends and went to the desert of Jerusalem (...), until I was taken as captive by the Franks/Crusaders and they sent me with Jews as forced labourers to Tripoli, [Lebanon].

“1141–1209, Nezami فرنگ فلسطین و رهبان روم پذیرای فرمان مهرش چو موم farang-i filistîn u rahbân-i rôm pazîrâ-yi farmân-i mihraš ču môm”

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“1045–1052, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama باجگاهی است آن جا که کشتی های که از اطراف روم و فرنگ و اندلس و مغرب بیاید عشر به سلطان دهند bâjgâhê ast ânjâ ki kaštî-hâ'ê ki az atrâf-i rôm u farang u andalus u maġrib biyâyand ušr ba sultân dahand.”

... there is a place to collect tribute over there through which the ships that come from Rum [Anatolia], Francia, Al-Andalus, and Maghreb pay the tithe [ushr, one-tenth of the earned profit] to the sultan ...

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