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• BĀDĀM

  X. de Planhol, N. Ramazani

  “almond.”  i. General.  ii. As food.  The genus Amygdalus is very common in Iran and Afghanistan and throughout the Turco-Iranian area.

• BĀDĀN B. SĀSĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ABNĀʾ.

• BĀDĀN PĪRŪZ

  Cross-Reference

  See ARDABĪL.

• BADAŠT

  M. Momen

  small village of about 1,000 inhabitants, site of a conference  convened on the instructions of the Bāb in 1848.

• BADĀʾŪNĪ, ʿABD-AL-QĀDER

  A. S. Bazmee Ansari

  (1540-ca. 1615), polyglot man of letters, historian, and translator of Arabic and Sanskrit works into Persian during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar.

• BĀDĀVARD

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  (windfall), the name of one of the seven treasures of Ḵosrow Parvēz in the Šāh-nāma.

• BADĀYEʿ

  Cross-Reference

  collection of ḡazals by Saʿdī. See SAʿDĪ.

• BADĀYEʿNEGĀR, ĀQĀ MOḤAMMAD-EBRĀHĪM

  Cross-Reference

  See NAWWĀB-E TEHRĀNĪ.

• BAḎḎ

  Ḡ. -Ḥ. Yūsofī

  or BAḎḎAYN (perhaps two places), a mountainous region (kūra) in Azerbaijan, site of the castle  headquarters of Bābak Ḵorramī during his revolt against the ʿAbbasid caliphate (816-37).

• BĀDENJĀN

  F. Aubaile-Sallenave, ʿE. Elāhī

  “eggplant, aubergine.” Solanum melogena L. of the Solanaceae family. i. The plant.  ii. Uses of cooking.