Also in Arab. form farsakh. [Pers. farsang: see PARASANG.] ‘A Persian measure of distance—the Parasang of the ancients—about four miles’ (H. H. Wilson, Gloss. Ind. Terms).
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1864), 65. From hence they reckon their way by farsangs.
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), I. III. xxxiii. 154. We travelled three farsangs over mountains.
1864. Pusey, Lect. Daniel, iii. 119. A reservoir for irrigation, 40 farsangs (about 138 miles) in circumference and about 20 fathom deep.
1889. Times (weekly ed.), 13 Dec., 8/1. A distance of 12 farsakhs, or 48 miles.
