Persian · proper noun · Faith & Sacred History
Rome
रोम
said room
also written: rum, room, byzantium
Meaning
Rum — the Roman/Byzantine and later Anatolian world; emblem of Western imperial power set against Persia, and the land of Rumi.
Related words
PERSIAN
Qaisar
Caesar; the emperor, especially of Rome or the West.
PERSIAN
Rumi
Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), the great Persian Sufi poet of Konya (Rum), author of the Masnavi, the supreme exemplar of mystical poetry.
PERSIAN
Farang
The land of the Franks — Europe and the West; in Iqbal the emblem of dazzling but soulless modern civilisation and material power.