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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.
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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.
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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.
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ČAHĀRGĀH
Bruno Nettl
the name of one of the twelve dastgāhs (modes) of traditional Persian music in the 14th/20th century.
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ČAHĀRJŪY
Cross-reference
See ĀMOL.
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ČAHĀRMEŻRĀB
Jean During
a genre of traditional rhythmic instrumental music.
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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.
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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.
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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.