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BOZPAYIT
James R. Russell
Middle Persian name, attested only in Armenian, of a Zoroastrian school or body of religious teaching in the Sasanian period.
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BRAHM
Werner Sundermann
“manner, fashion, costume,” Middle Persian word used in connection with human beings, referring either to mode of behavior or to outward appearance.
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BRĀHMĪ
Douglas A. Hitch
Indian script used for a variety of languages in Chinese Turkestan, including Iranian languages. From the Tarim Basin (Xinjiang, China) we have first-millennium documents in Brāhmī script in several Iranian languages.
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BRAHUI
Josef Elfenbein
As “long-distance cattle-herders” in 1880 no fewer than 80 percent of these tribesmen were tent-dwelling nomads; fewer than 20 percent were described as settled. In 1975 the proportions were almost exactly the reverse, and Brahui settlement in large towns has been increasing ever more rapidly.
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BRASS
cross-reference
See BERENJ.
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BRAZIER
Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani, Jaʿfar Šahrī
two distinct types of utensil traditionally used in Iran. One type is a closed container on legs, a kind of stove that holds slowly burning coals for heating.
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BRAZMANIY(A)
cross-reference
See AŠA ii.
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BREAD
Hélène Desmet-Grégoire
Persian nān. In modern Iran bread is the dietary staple food for the population and accounts, on the average, for 70 percent of the daily caloric intake.
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BRĒLVĪ
cross-reference
See BARĒLVĪ.
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BREST-LITOVSK TREATY
Joseph A. Kechichian
treaty signed by the Central Powers and Soviet Russia on 3 March 1918 that was consequential in the history of modern Iran.