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ʿAṬR
F. Aubaile-Sallenave
“perfume” (Arabic ʿeṭr, plur. ʿoṭūr; in Persian also ʿaṭrīyāt, perfumes), a Semitic term also attested in Syriac and Amharic.
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ATRAK
C. E. Bosworth
river of northern Khorasan, flowing first northwest, and then southwest into the Caspian Sea.
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ĀΘRAVAN-
M. Boyce
(Avestan) “priest” regularly used to designate the priests as a social “class,” one of the three into which ancient Iranian society was theoretically divided.
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ĀTRƎVAXŠ
W. W. Malandra
(Mid. Pers ādurwaxš), one of the eight Zoroastrian priests (ratu) necessary for performance of the yasna ritual.
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ATROPATENE
Cross-Reference
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ATROPATES
M. L. CHAUMONT
the satrap of Media, commander of the troops from Media, Albania, and Sacasene at the battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C.
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ATRUŠAN
J. R. Russell
the Armenian word for “fire temple,” a loan-word from Parthian.
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ATSÏZ B. ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN
Cross-Reference
See ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ATSÏZ.
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ATSÏZ ḠARČAʾĪ
C. E. Bosworth
ruler of Ḵᵛārazm with the traditional title Ḵᵛārazmšāh, 521 or 522/1127 or 1128 to 551/1156.
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ATTABI
E. Sims
one of many names for cloth used by medieval Islamic writers.