Note 88 — PRINCE AHMAD AND THE FAIRY PERI-BANU.[63]
Richard Francis Burton translation
The parasang (Gr. παρασάγγης), which Ibn Khall. (iii. 315) reduces to three miles, has been derived wildly enough from Fars or Pars (Persia proper) sang = (mile) stone. Chardin supports the etymology, “because leagues are marked out with great tall stones in the East as well as the West, e.g. ad primam (vel secundam) lapidem.”