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• ERĒZ

  Cross-Reference

  See ARZENJĀN.

• ʿERFĀN (1)

  Gerhard Böwering

  lit. "knowledge"; Islamic theosophy.

• ʿERFĀN (2)

  Nassereddin Parvin

  title of two Persian magazines and a newspaper.

• ʿERFĀN, ḤASAN

  Habib Borjian

  Hasan Aliḵonovič Mamadḵonov (b. Samarkand, 3 March 1900; d. 22 June 1973), Tajik translator and writer.

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• ERGATIVE CONSTRUCTION

  John R. Payne

  The most generally accepted definition of an ergative construction begins with the notion that languages utilize three primitive syntactic relations, referred to as S, A, and O. S is the subject of an intransitive clause, A is the subject of a transitive clause, and O is the object of a transitive clause.

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• ĒRĪČ MOUNTAIN

  Gherardo Gnoli

  mentioned in a chapter of the Bundahišn devoted to mountains.

• EROTIC LITERATURE

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  expressed in Persian by the neologism "adabīyāt-e erotīk"; not a clearly defined genre, since the concept of what is “erotic” varies considerably from time to time and place to place.

• ERŠĀD

  Nassereddin Parvin

  title of two Persian newspapers and a magazine.

• ERŠĀD AL-NESWĀN

  Nassereddin Parvin

  the first women’s periodical in Afghanistan, published weekly in Kabul from 16 March-9 June 1921.

• ERŠĀD al-ZERĀʿA

  Maria E. Subtelny

  a Persian agricultural manual completed in Herat in 1515 by Qāsem b. Yūsof Abūnaṣrī, who was previously identified in the scholarly literature simply as Fāżel Heravī.