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  • ČAHĀRBĀḠ-E GARRŪS

    Moḥammad Dabīrsīāqī

    (ČĀRBĀḠ-E GARRŪS), a park no longer in existence in the south of the town of Bījār, center of Garrūs šahrestān in Persian Kurdistan.

  • ČAHĀRBĀḠ-E MAŠHAD

    Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Yūsofī

    name of a royal garden and palace at Mašhad; under the Qajars and up to the present time it has been the name of an old quarter in the city.

  • ČAHĀRDAH MAʿṢŪM

    Hamid Algar

    the fourteen inerrant or immaculate personages venerated by Twelver Shiʿites, i.e., the Prophet Moḥammad, his daughter Fāṭema, and the twelve imams.

  • ČAHĀRGĀH

    Bruno Nettl

    the name of one of the twelve dastgāhs (modes) of traditional Persian music in the 14th/20th century.

  • ČAHĀRJŪY

    Cross-reference

    See ĀMOL.

  • ČAHĀRMEŻRĀB

    Jean During

    a genre of traditional rhythmic instrumental music.

  • ČAHĀRŠANBA-SŪRĪ

    Manouchehr Kasheff and ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī

    (usually pronounced Čāršamba-sūrī), the last Wednesday of the Persian solar year, the eve of which is marked by special customs and rituals, most notably jumping over fire.

  • ČAHĀRṬĀQ

    Dietrich Huff, Bernard O’Kane

    literally “four arches,” a modern term for an equilateral architectural unit consisting of four arches or short barrel vaults between four corner piers, with a dome on squinches over the central square. this unit became the most prominent element in traditional Iranian architecture after the ayvān.

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  • ČAHĀRTĀR

    Jean During

    (lit. four-strings), a musical instrument belonging to the family of long-necked lutes.

  • ČAHRĪQ

    Amir Hassanpour, Juan R. I. Cole

    a dehestān, village, and fortress in Salmās (Šāhpūr in the Pahlavi period) šahrestān in Azerbaijan between Ḵᵛoy and Urmia.