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Journal of Persianate Studies, 2014
Abstract the verb abāz-handāxtan is used in Dēnkard IV. Different definitions of the verb caused two divergent interpretations of the history of the Zoroastrians scriptures during Sasanian era. This article does not attempt to provide a third category of meaning, but tries to suggest a subtle modification to the traditionally accepted meaning of ‘to ...
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Abstract the verb abāz-handāxtan is used in Dēnkard IV. Different definitions of the verb caused two divergent interpretations of the history of the Zoroastrians scriptures during Sasanian era. This article does not attempt to provide a third category of meaning, but tries to suggest a subtle modification to the traditionally accepted meaning of ‘to ...
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Borrowings in Middle Armenian (Persian Borrowings, Continuation)
Scientific Proceedings of Vanadzor State University. Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023Key words: middle Armenian-Persian borrowings, semantic groups of words, modern literary Armenian, Lori dialect, transliterated phonetic changes of vowels and consonants, word formation, lexicalization, derivation Persian borrowings are considerably large in number in Middle Armenian, but few words are used in the modern Eastern Armenian literary ...
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1968
In consequence of the victory of Alexander the Great (330–323 B.C.) vast changes were wrought in Iran. Many centuries later Persian tradition still refers to the fall of the Achaemenid kingdom as the greatest catastrophe that ever befell Iran. Alexander abolished the privileged position of the Iranian elements and endeavoured to form a new nobility by ...
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In consequence of the victory of Alexander the Great (330–323 B.C.) vast changes were wrought in Iran. Many centuries later Persian tradition still refers to the fall of the Achaemenid kingdom as the greatest catastrophe that ever befell Iran. Alexander abolished the privileged position of the Iranian elements and endeavoured to form a new nobility by ...
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Persian Borrowings in the Middle Armenian Language
Scientific Proceedings of the Vanadzor State University. Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023Key words: external means of vocabulary enrichment, direct and mediated word penetration, their frequency, spheres, homonyms in Armenian-Persian and Persian-other languages Vocabulary is a living organism and not a frozen reality which is constantly undergoing changes. New words are introduced and vocabulary is enriched.
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The Middle-persian Word For ‘Beer ’
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1955In BSOAS XIII, 1950, p. 642, n. 8, I referred to the Pahlavi word for ‘beer’, which had lurked unrecognized in the Frahang-i Pahlavik (v, 2 = xxxi, 2–3), and quoted the Karnamag passage vii, 8 (Sanjana). There it is related that Ardashir, fleeing in disguise, was hospitably received by two friendly brothers.
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Middle Persian Inscriptions on Sasanian Silverware
Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1974SASANIAN SILVER OBJECTS challenge the art historian to explain and relate questions of materials, techniques, styles, and motifs within an often illusive historical frame. To the social historian, these vessels provide an expression of the culture of the Iranian feudal aristocracy with its dynastic ideology. The epigrapher and philologist, in his turn,
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A List of Middle-Persian and Parthian words
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1937As the publication of the Manichæan fragments in the possession of the Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften will necessarily take some more years, it may be found useful at present to make the linguistic material contained in those texts available to students of Iranian languages.
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Middle-Persian Morphology and Old Persian Masks. Some Reflections on “Proto-Middle Persian”
2019Il lavoro delinea una nuova ipotesi di lettura delle grafie 'aberranti' proprie delle tarde iscrizioni achemenidi. Apre l'articolo una rassegna delle opinioni più accreditate circa lo status delle grafie tardo-achemenidi. Sulla base degli indizi fonologici e scrittori e tenendo conto delle peculiarità della scrittura sillabica achemenide, si dimostra
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The Middle Persian Inscription at Sar Mashhad
Harvard Theological Review, 1949In 1924 Herzfeld discovered the largest (in size) Middle Persian inscription extant, near the village of Sar Mashhad in the province of Fārs. It was never published, and in the summer of 1948 when in Iran I made a trip to the site. The literary remains of Herzfeld, with which I had been occupied, gave scant detail about the location and condition of ...
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Middle Persian bāzūg and bāzā(y)
2020In this paper I discuss: a) the different formation of MP bāzūg and bāzā(y), that are evidently cognates; (b) the alternate transcriptions bāzā and bāzāy; and (c) the distribution and the meanings, in the Middle Persian of the Pahlavi Books, of bāzūg and bāzā(y), both simply glossed as ‘arm’ by Nyberg and MacKenzie.
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