"Zoroastrianism" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˌzɒɹəʊˈæstɹɪəˌnɪzəm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌzoʊɹ.oʊˈæs.tɹi.əˌnɪz.əm/ [US], /ˌzɔɹ.oʊˈæs.tɹi.əˌnɪz.əm/ [US]
Etymology: From Zoroastrian + -ism, influenced by Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syriac reports of Zoroaster (“Zarathustra”) as the “lawgiver” of the Iranian peoples, as reviewed in Thomas Hyde's Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis Historia, 1700. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Zoroastrian|-ism}} Zoroastrian + -ism, {{m|en|Zoroaster||Zarathustra}} Zoroaster (“Zarathustra”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|-}} Zoroastrianism (uncountable)
  1. (common) Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion. Tags: common, uncountable Categories (topical): Zoroastrianism Coordinate_terms (religions): religion Translations (religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster): Zoroastrisme (Afrikaans), mazdaizm (Albanian), زرادشتِيَّة [feminine] (Arabic), զրադաշտականություն (zradaštakanutʿyun) (Armenian), Zərdüştilik (Azerbaijani), Məzdəizm (Azerbaijani), Zoroastrismo (Basque), зараастры́зм (zaraastrýzm) [masculine] (Belarusian), zoroastregezh [feminine] (Breton), зороастри́зъм (zoroastrízǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), mazdeisme [masculine] (Catalan), zoroastrisme [masculine] (Catalan), 祆教 (hin¹ gaau³) (Chinese Cantonese), 瑣羅亞斯德教 (Chinese Cantonese), 琐罗亚斯德教 (so² lo⁴ aa³ si¹ dak¹ gaau³) (Chinese Cantonese), 拜火教 (baai³ fo² gaau³) (Chinese Cantonese), 祆教 (Xiānjiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 拜火教 (Bàihuǒjiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 瑣羅亞斯德教 (Chinese Mandarin), 琐罗亚斯德教 (Suǒluóyàsīdéjiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 波斯教 (Bōsījiào) (Chinese Mandarin), zoroastrismus [masculine] (Czech), zarathustrianisme (Danish), zoroastrisme [neuter] (Dutch), zaratuŝtrismo (Esperanto), zarathustralaisuus (Finnish), zoroastrisme [masculine] (French), zoroastrismo [masculine] (Galician), mazdeísmo [masculine] (Galician), ზოროასტრიზმი (zoroasṭrizmi) (Georgian), Zoroastrismus [masculine] (German), Zarathustrismus [masculine] (German), ζωροαστρισμός (zoroastrismós) [masculine] (Greek), אַמְגּוּשִׁיּוּת (Hebrew), זוֹרוֹאָסְטְרִיּוּת (Hebrew), पारसी धर्म (pārsī dharm) (Hindi), zoroasztrizmus (Hungarian), zoroasztrianizmus (Hungarian), Zoroastrianisme (Indonesian), zoroastrismo (Interlingua), Sorastrachas [masculine] (Irish), zoroastrismo [masculine] (Italian), ゾロアスター教 (Zoroasutā-kyō) (Japanese), 祆教 (genkyō) (alt: けんきょう) (Japanese), 拝火教 (haikakikyō) (alt: はいかきょう) (Japanese), зардұштшылық (zardūştşylyq) (Kazakh), заратуштрашылдық (zaratuştraşyldyq) (Kazakh), 배화교 (Baehwagyo) (Korean), 조로아스터교 (joroaseuteogyo) (Korean), Religio Zoroastrea [feminine] (Latin), Zoroastrismus [masculine] (Latin), zoroastrisms [masculine] (Latvian), zoroastrizmas (Lithuanian), зороастри́зам (zoroastrízam) [masculine] (Macedonian), 𐭬𐭦𐭣𐭩𐭮𐭭 (alt: mzdysn /⁠mazdêsn⁠/) (Middle Persian), zerdeştî (Northern Kurdish), zoroastrisme (Norwegian), դեն մազդեզանց (den mazdezancʿ) (Old Armenian), زردشتي (Pashto), زرتشتیگری (zartošti-gari) (Persian), مزدیسنا (mazdayasnâ) (Persian), zaratustrianizm [masculine] (Polish), zaratustryzm [masculine] (Polish), zaratusztrianizm [masculine] (Polish), zoroastrianizm [masculine] (Polish), zoroastryzm [masculine] (Polish), zoroastrismo [masculine] (Portuguese), zoroastrism [neuter] (Romanian), зороастри́зм (zoroastrízm) [masculine] (Russian), маздаи́зм (mazdaízm) [masculine] (Russian), зороастријанизам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), зороастрѝзам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), заратустризам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), zoroastrijanizam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), zoroastrìzam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), zaratustrizam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), zoroastrizmus [inanimate, masculine] (Slovak), zoroastrstvo (Slovene), zoroastrismo [masculine] (Spanish), zoroastrism (Swedish), ศาสนาโซโรอัสเตอร์ (sàatsànăa-sohrohàttêr) (Thai), Zerdüştçülük (Turkish), зороастри́зм (zoroastrýzm) [masculine] (Ukrainian), زەردۇشتىلىك (zerdushtilik) (Uyghur), Hỏa giáo (Vietnamese), Bái hỏa giáo (Vietnamese), Hiên giáo (Vietnamese), Zoroastriaeth [feminine] (Welsh)
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  2. (scholarly) The historical (pre-Islamic) indigenous beliefs and practices of the Iranian peoples. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-Zoroastrianism-en-name-gSd12BLo Categories (other): Automatic Inscriptional Pahlavi transliterations containing ambiguous characters Disambiguation of Automatic Inscriptional Pahlavi transliterations containing ambiguous characters: 53 47 Topics: scholarly, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Zoroastrism [dated] Related terms: Zoroastrian, Zarathustrianism (alt: coined by Hermann Lommel (and popularized by Ilya Gershevitch) to denote the prophet's own doctrine as distinguished from later accretions; from Zarathustra) (english: Avestan language name of Zoroaster), Zarathustricism (english: the teachings of Younger Avestan texts, as distinct from Zarathustrianism and also from later accretions), Mazdaism (english: the religion in which Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity), Parseeism (english: archaic: the religion of the Parsees of the Indian subcontinent, long believed to be the only surviving community of Zoroastrians)

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      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "заратустризам"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoroastrijanizam"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoroastrìzam"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zaratustrizam"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "tags": [
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoroastrizmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "word": "zoroastrstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoroastrismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "word": "zoroastrism"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sàatsànăa-sohrohàttêr",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "word": "ศาสนาโซโรอัสเตอร์"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "word": "Zerdüştçülük"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zoroastrýzm",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зороастри́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "zerdushtilik",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "word": "زەردۇشتىلىك"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "word": "Hỏa giáo"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "word": "Bái hỏa giáo"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "word": "Hiên giáo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "religion and philosophy ascribed to Zoroaster",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zoroastriaeth"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Thomas Hyde"
  ],
  "word": "Zoroastrianism"
}

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