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Definition of Avestan

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Avesta (sacred text of Zoroastrianism).

2. Noun. An ancient Iranian language.

3. Noun. The script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written.

Definition of Avestan

1. a. Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta.

Definition of Avestan

1. Proper noun. An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Avesta or Avestan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avestan

Averil Avernal Averni Avernian Avernus Averrhoa Averrhoa bilimbi Averrhoa carambola Averroes Averroism

Averroisms Averroist Averroists Avery Avesta Avestan (current term) Aveyron Avi Avicenna Avicennia

Avicennia marina Avicennia officinalis Avicenniaceae Avignon Avignon berries Avignon berry Avinash Avinesh Avogadrian Avogadro

Literary usage of Avestan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zoroastrian Civilization: From the Earliest Times to the Downfall of the by Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla (1922)
"Though no consecutive works which deal exclusively with the secular .subjects have reached us, we meet, interspersed in the extant Avestan texts, ..."

2. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1901)
"So far as the Sanskrit, Avestan, Greek, and Phrygian are concerned, ... I have given parallels to the subordinate clauses in Avestan from Sanskrit, ..."

3. Historical Grammar of the Ancient Persian Language by Edwin Lee Johnson (1917)
"31, 80) compares a mutilated passage with an Avestan theologic phrase which may serve to show that the king was really employing an expression peculiar to ..."

4. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History by Morris Jastrow (1915)
"The characters used in the Avestan manuscripts were, however, ... To be sure it subsequently turned out that the Avestan books represented a compilation ..."

5. Studies in Honor of Maurice Bloomfield by Maurice Bloomfield (1920)
"72), the verb expressing the act of throwing the pestle into gear, and the very word suggests that the Avestan mode had some counterpart to ..."

6. The Graduate Handbook by Federation of Graduate Clubs (U.S.) (1893)
"Columbia, '83-6; Halle, '87-9. — Lecturer on Mazdean Religion at Harvard, '92.— A Hymn of Zoroaster, Yasna 31 ; Avestan Alphabet and its ..."

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