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• ĀS

  Mehdi Roschanzamir

  a game of playing cards which became popular in the Qajar era, and hence replaced ganjafa, the card game associated with the Safavids.

• ĀS

  cross-reference

  “Ossetia”; ĀSĪ “Ossetic, Ossete.” See ALANS; ALBANIA; ASII; OSSETIC.

• ĀŠ

  W. Eilers, ʿE. Elāhī, M. Boyce

  (thick soup), the general term for a traditional Iranian dish comparable to the French potage.

• AṦA

  B. Schlerath, P. O. Skjærvø

  “truth” in Avestan, from Indo-Iranian *ṛtá-, a neuter noun having the same meaning.

• AṦA VAHIŠTA

  cross-reference

  See ARDWAHIŠT.

• ASʿAD B. NAṢR

  Cross-Reference

  See ABZARĪ.

• ASAD B. SĀMĀNḴODĀ

  C. E. Bosworth

  ancestor of the Samanid dynasty.

• ASADĀBĀD

  C. E. Bosworth

  names of a town in the medieval Islamic province of Jebāl.

• ASADĀBĀD

  D. Balland

  (or ASʿADĀBĀD), the official name of a small town in eastern Afghanistan.

• ASADĀBĀDĪ, ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR.