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    come from the Iranian forms: ariya in Old Persian, airya in Avestan, ariao in Bactrian, ary in Parthian and ēr in Middle Persian. The word ērān is first...
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    mentions Ahura Mazda as nap harriyanam "the god of the Iranians". The Modern Persian word Īrān (ایران) derives immediately from Middle Persian Ērān (Pahlavi...
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    display the Persian text in this article correctly. Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia...
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  • Aryan (redirect from Aryan (word))
    country name Iran. A German translation of Anquetil-Duperron's work led to the introduction of the term Arier in 1776. The Sanskrit word ā́rya is rendered...
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  • subsequently, Iranians started avoiding the word "aurat" for 'women', due to its meaning of "nakedness". In (Ottoman) Turkish, the word 'avret' was used...
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  • Iranian peoples Iranian languages Iranica Iran (word) Iranistan, a Moorish Revival mansion in the U.S. city of Bridgeport, Connecticut IRAN, an international...
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  • Dances in Iran or Iranian dances (Persian:رقص ایرانی) are dance styles indigenous to Iran. Genres of dance in Iran vary depending on the area, culture...
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  • in Iran. Univ of California Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780520280816. This discourse was eventually tagged with the Persian neologism osulgarāi, a word that...
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    descendant of a hypothetical reconstructed Old Iranian word for "praise-song" (Bartholomae: Lobgesang); but this word is not actually attested in any text. The...
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    Daeva (category Ancient Iranian deities)
    Equivalents for Avestan daeva in Iranian languages include Pashto, Balochi, Kurdish dêw, Persian dīv/deev. The Iranian word was borrowed by Old Armenian as...
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