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• ARTYPHIOS

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  or ARTYBIOS, Greek rendering of an Old Persian name.

• ARTYSTONE

  R. Schmitt

  Persian female personal name.

• ARUKKU

  M. Dandamayev

  a son of Cyrus I, king of Parsumaš and grandfather of Cyrus the Great.

• ʿARŪSĪ

  A. Betteridge

  the secular wedding celebration which follows the wedding contract ceremony (ʿaqd).

• ʿARŪŻ

  L. P. Elwell-Sutton

  the metrical system used by the Arab poets since pre-Islamic times.

• ʿARŪŻĪ, YŪSOF

  Z. Safa

  rhetorician and poet of the 4th/10th century.

• ARVAND GUŠNASP

  D. M. Lang

  Sasanian marzbān of Georgia under Ḵosrow I.

• ARVAND-RŪD

  M. Kasheff

  name given to the river Tigris in some passages in the Mid. Pers. books.

• ARYA

  H. W. Bailey

  an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition.

• ARYAMAN

  Cross-Reference

  See AIRYAMAN.