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• ABRADATAS

  C. J. Brunner

   a fictional king of Susa in Xenophon’s fictional, didactic life of Cyrus (Cyropaedia, books 5-7).

• ABRAHAM

  Cross-Reference

  See EBRĀHĪM.

• ABRAHAM OF CRETE

  George A. Bournoutian

  (Kretatsʾi; b. Kandia, Crete, ?- d. Ejmiatsin, 18 April 1737), a leader of the Armenian Church and the author of a chronicle about Nāder Shah Afšār.

• ABRAHAM OF EREVAN

  George A. Bournoutian

  the author of a history of the wars in Armenian at the time of Nāder Shah Afšār.

• ABRAHAMIAN, ROUBEN

  Jennifer Manoukian

  Armenian Iranist, linguist, and translator. One of the first teachers of Pahlavi language at University of Tehran.

• ABRĀZ

  C. J. Brunner

  Middle Persian “high, superior, height,” old Iranian *uparyānk- “above, high.”

• ABRĪŠAM

  W. Eilers, M. Bazin and C. Bromberger, D. Thompson

  "Silk," originally from China, has been known in Iran since ancient times.

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• ĀBRĪZAGĀN

  M. Boyce

  “the pouring of water,” name for a Zoroastrian feast; the term could be used for Tīragān and probably also for the name-day festival of Hordād, both of which were celebrated by people sprinkling one another joyfully with water.

• ĀšBRĪZĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See TĪRAGĀN.

• ABROCOMAS

  M. Dandamayev

  Persian satrap of Syria and commander under Artaxerxes II.