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APŌŠ
C. J. Brunner
Middle Persian for Av. Apaoša, the demon of drought.
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ĀSTARKĪ
J. Qāʾem-Maqāmī
(or AŠTARKĪ), one sub-tribe of the six which presently constitute the Dūrkī tribe of the Haft Lang confederation of the Baḵtīārī people.
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ABŪ ZAYD B. MOḤAMMAD KĀŠĀNĪ
O. Watson
perhaps the single most important luster potter of Kāšān known to us. More signed and dated works (from 587/1191 to 616/1219) are known by him than by any other potter, and his signature occurs on a greater variety of wares, including both tiles and vessels.
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LAVĀSĀN
Giti Deyhim and EIr.
a town and district northwest of Tehran.
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ARTAXIAS I
J. Russell
reigned 189-160 B.C., founder of the Artaxiad dynasty in Greater Armenia.
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BĀRHANG
Hakim M. Said
(also bārtang), plantain, general name for about 27 species of Plantago L. (family Plantaginaceae) in Iran, particularly the greater plantain, the lesser plantain, and fleawort.
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ĀDURBĀD ĒMĒDĀN
A. Tafażżolī
second author of the 9th century CE Zoroastrian compilation, Dēnkard.
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ČAḠĀNRŪD
C. Edmund Bosworth
Čaḡānīrūd in Farroḵī, the seventh and last right-bank tributary of the Oxus or Amu Darya.
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IRAN vii. NON-IRANIAN LANGUAGES (8) Semitic Languages
Gernot Windfuhr
First Aramaic and then Arabic had considerable contact with Iranian languages. Their impact differs.
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BARĀ’A
E. Kohlberg
an Imami theological term denoting dissociation from the enemies of the imams. During the conflict between ʿAlī and Moʿāwīa, formulas of dissociation were used by both parties.