Boyce, Mary: «Middle Persian Literature» i: Handbuch Der Orientalistik – I. Abt., IV. bind 2, s. 60. Sitat: «This is a short prose work, simple in style, probably written in Pars towards the end of the Sasanian period. It too was evidently the work of priests, and a comparison of it with Firdausi's rendering shows how effectively Zoroastrian elements were obliterated in the Muslim redaction. The Kârnâmag contains some historical details; but its generally romantic character has been explained as due to contamination with legends of Cyrus the Great, still current then in Pars.»
På engelsk har dette blitt til to begreper, «parthing shot», militær taktikk, late som man flykter, deretter bråvende og angripe, og «parting shot», som begynte som feilskrivelse, første gang benyttet av John McCleod i A narrative of a Voyage to the Yellow Sea (1818): «The consort, firing a parting shot, bore up round the north end of the island, and escaped.» Denne skrivemåten har fått betydningen «å rette en fornærmelse mot noen». Se «Parting shot», Dictionary.com.
Bruinessen, Martin van (1989): «The ethnic identity of the Kurds»Arkivert 15. oktober 2015 hos Wayback Machine. (PDF) i: Andrews, Peter Alford, red.: Ethnic groups in the Republic of Turkey, Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Reihe B, Nr.60. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwich Reichert, , s. 613–21. sitat: «The ethnic label "Kurd" is first encountered in Arabic sources from the first centuries of the Islamic era; it seemed to refer to a specific variety of pastoral nomadism, and possibly to a set of political units, rather than to a linguistic group.»
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Bruinessen, Martin van (1989): «The ethnic identity of the Kurds»Arkivert 15. oktober 2015 hos Wayback Machine. (PDF) i: Andrews, Peter Alford, red.: Ethnic groups in the Republic of Turkey, Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Reihe B, Nr.60. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwich Reichert, , s. 613–21. sitat: «The ethnic label "Kurd" is first encountered in Arabic sources from the first centuries of the Islamic era; it seemed to refer to a specific variety of pastoral nomadism, and possibly to a set of political units, rather than to a linguistic group.»
