Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Parasang

Parasang , noun

[Latin parasanga, Greek {not transcribed}, from Old Persian; compare Per. farsang.]

A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.