ancestor in Persian
نیا niyā
UK/ˈæn.sɛs.tə//ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/
ancestor in Persian: نیا (niyā), پیشینیان (pīšīniyān). In English, ancestor means one from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.
Persian words for ancestor
- one from whom a person is descended
- نیا niyā, پیشینیان pīšīniyān
English meaning of ancestor
- noun One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.
- noun An earlier type; a progenitor.
- noun One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
- noun One who had the same role or function in former times.
ancestor in a sentence
- This fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
Synonyms of ancestor
ancestor in other languages
- ancestor in Hindi
- ancestor in Tamil
- ancestor in Marathi
- ancestor in Urdu
- ancestor in Bengali
- ancestor in Telugu
- ancestor in Malayalam
- ancestor in Kannada
- ancestor in Punjabi
- ancestor in Gujarati
- ancestor in Sinhala
- ancestor in Arabic
- ancestor in Malay
- ancestor in Indonesian
- ancestor in Thai
- ancestor in Vietnamese
Questions about ancestor in Persian
- What is the meaning of ancestor in Persian?
- Ancestor in Persian is نیا (niyā), پیشینیان (pīšīniyān).
- معنی ancestor چیست؟
- Ancestor: نیا (niyā), پیشینیان (pīšīniyān).
- What does ancestor mean in English?
- Ancestor means one from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ancestor (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Persian words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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