English word senses marked with topical category "Zoroastrianism"

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• Ahriman (Proper name) The hypostasis of chaos, destruction, evil in Zoroastrianism.
• Ahuna Vairya (Proper name) Avestan language name of the most sacred of the Gathic hymns of the Avesta, the revered texts of Zoroastrianism.
• Ahura (Proper name) Title of the three members of the ahuric triad – Ahura Mazda, Ahura Mithra, and Ahura Berezant Apam Napat – that regulate (or, in the case of Mazda, create) the physical and moral order (asha).
• Ahura Mazda (Proper name) The divinity exalted by Zoroaster as the one uncreated Creator, or God.
• Ameretat (Proper name) The Zoroastrian divinity/divine concept of "not dying". As the hypostasis of immortality, Ameretat is the Amesha Spenta of long life on earth and eternal life in the hereafter.
• Amesha Spenta (Noun) Any of the six immortal beings created by Ahura Mazda plus Ahura Mazda himself, often equated to archangels, virtues, and elements of nature.
• Angra Mainyu (Proper name) Avestan language name of Zoroastrianism's hypostasis of the "destructive spirit". The Middle Persian equivalent is Ahriman.
• Apam Napat (Proper name) One of the Ahura triad of the Avestan tradition.
• Asman (Proper name) Avestan and Middle Persian name of the Zoroastrian divinity that is the hypostasis of the sky. Asman is the "highest heaven," and is distinguished from the firmament, 𐬚𐬡𐬁𐬴𐬀 (θβāṣ̌a), which lies nearer the earth.
• Auramazda (Proper name) Ahura Mazda
• Avesta (Proper name) The primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language.
• Avestan (Proper name) An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
• Bahrām (Proper name) Verethragna; The Zoroastrian concept of “victory over resistance” and, as the hypostasis of victory, one of the principal figures in the Zoroastrian pantheon of yazatas.
• Bundahishn (Proper name) An encyclopaedic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology; especially, the longer of the two recessions of the work.
• Dari (Proper name) A language primarily spoken in the Yazd and Kerman areas of Iran.
• Gatha (Noun) Any of the 17 hymns included in the Avesta believed to have been composed by Zoroaster himself.
• God (Interjection) Short for oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.
• Guebre (Noun) a Zoroastrian
• Haoma (Noun) Hypostatic divinity of the haoma plant.
• Haurvatat (Proper name) The Zoroastrian concept of “wholeness” or “perfection”. As a divinity, Haᵘrvatat is the Amesha Spenta of water, prosperity, and health.
• Horomazes (Proper name) Ahura Mazda, the divinity exalted by Zoroaster as the highest God.
• Mazda (Proper name) Ahura Mazda, the supreme and transcendental god of Zoroastrianism.
• Mazdaic (Adjective) relating to or characteristic of Mazdaism; Zoroastrian
• Mazdaism (Proper name) The modern Zoroastrian religion.
• Mazdayasnian (Adjective) Zoroastrian; of or pertaining to the Zoroastrian religion.
• Mazdayasnianism (Proper name) Zoroastrianism.
• Mazdean (Adjective) Of or pertaining to Mazda, the Zoroastrian deity.
• Mithra (Proper name) Roman Mithras.
• Nouruz (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Nowruz
• Nowruz (Proper name) New Year in the Iranian/Zoroastrian calendar, celebrated on the spring equinox.
• Parseeism (Noun) Alternative form of Parsiism
• Parsi (Noun) A member of the larger of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent.
• Parsiism (Noun) The religion and customs of the Parsis.
• Pazend (Proper name) A variant of Avestan alphabet used to write Middle Persian.
• Vendidad (Proper name) A collection of texts within the greater compendium of the Avesta. By content, an enumeration of various manifestations of evil spirits, and ways to confound them.
• Verethragna (Proper name) The hypostasis of “victory”; a highly complex figure in Zoroastrianism.
• Xwedodah (Proper name) A type of consanguine marriage practiced before the Muslim conquest of Persia.
• Yasna (Proper name) The primary liturgical collection of texts of the Avesta.
• Yasna (Proper name) The principal Zoroastrian act of worship at which those verses are recited.
• Zarathustrian (Adjective) Relating to or characteristic of Zarathustrianism (also known as Zoroastrianism).
• Zarathustrian (Noun) A follower of Zarathustra (also known as Zoroaster).
• Zend (Proper name) The Avestan language.
• Zend-Avesta (Proper name) 18th/19th-century misnomer for the Avesta, related to the confusion surrounding 'Zend'.
• Zoroaster (Proper name) Pseudepigraphic name used by various Ancient Greek and Latin authors of late antiquity to lend weight to their opinions.
• Zoroastrian (Noun) a follower of Zoroastrianism
• Zoroastrianism (Proper name) Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion.
• Zoroastrism (Noun) Dated form of Zoroastrianism.
• Zurvanism (Noun) A now-extinct branch of Zoroastrianism that had the divinity Zurvan as its primordial creator deity.
• ahura (Noun) A member of the ahuric triad.
• asha (Noun) The concept of truth and existence in Zoroastrianism, usually associated with the Amesha Spentas.
• daeva (Noun) A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature, usually considered as a demon.
• dakhma (Noun) Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”)
• dastur (Noun) A Zoroastrian high priest ranking above a mobad or herbad.
• doongerwadi (Noun) Synonym of tower of silence
• druj (Noun) Deceit, falsehood, lie.
• faravahar (Noun) A symbol of the religion Zoroastrianism, also used to represent the Iranian nation.
• fire temple (Noun) A Zoroastrian place of worship, where fire is kindled.
• haoma (Noun) A plant associated with the divinity Haoma.
• herbad (Noun) A Zoroastrian priest of a minor order.
• mage (Noun) Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
• magus (Noun) A Zoroastrian priest.
• mobad (Noun) A Zoroastrian cleric of a particular rank, qualified to serve as celebrant priest at the Yasna ceremony and to train other priests.
• parahaoma (Noun) The juice of the haoma plant.
• tower of silence (Noun) A low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary.
• urvan (Noun) The soul.
• xrafstar (Noun) Any animal considered harmful or repulsive, and not to be sacrificed or eaten.
• yasht (Noun) Any of a collection of hymns and prayers.
• yazata (Noun) A divinity.

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