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Chehel Menar

Chehel Menar is the alternative spelling of Chilminar.

Meaning of Chilminar

Proper noun

Chilminar

  1. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins.
    • CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſepolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183
    Synonyms:
    Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins

Questions about Chehel Menar

What is Chehel Menar the alternative spelling of?
Chehel Menar is the alternative spelling of Chilminar.

Words near Chehel Menar in the dictionary

  1. Chehalem berries
  2. Chehalem berry
  3. Chehalem blackberries
  4. Chehalem blackberry
  5. chehalis
  6. Chehel Menar
  7. Cheia
  8. cheider
  9. cheiders
  10. cheif
  11. cheikh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chehel Menar (page history and authors); Chilminar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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