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EŻĀFA
John R. Perry and Ali Ashraf Sadeghi
(annexation, suppletion), a grammatical term embracing several types of Persian noun phrase in which the constituents are connected by the enclitic -e/-ye (kasra-ye eżāfa “the eżāfa particle”).
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EZGĪL
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or AZGĪL. See MEDLAR.
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EZĪRĀN
Sheila S. Blair
a village 32 km southeast of Isfahan on the south bank of the river Zāyandarūd.
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EZNIK OF KOŁB
James R. Russell
or KOŁBACʿI (b. ca. 374-80), Armenian Christian theologian and cleric; his work contains a refutation of the Zoroastrian religion.
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ʿEZRĀ
Cross-Reference
See BIBLE.
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ʿEZRĀ, BOOK OF
J.C. Reeves
canonical biblical book emanating from the early portion of the Second Temple period (515 B.C.E.-70 C.E.) of Jewish history.
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ʿEZRĀ-NĀMA
Amnon Netzer
paraphrased versification of the Book of ʿEzrā containing midrashic and Iranian legends.
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ʿEZRĀʾĪL
Cross-Reference
lit. "Angel of Death." See Supplement (ANGELS).
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ʿEZZ-AL-DAWLA, ʿABD-al-RAŠĪD
C. E. Bosworth
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ʿEZZ-AL-DAWLA, ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD MĪRZĀ
Kambiz Eslami
In 1872, ʿEzz-al-Dawla became the chieftain of the Qajar tribe, a prestigious albeit ceremonial position that he held for a year. It was in this capacity that he was selected to join Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah’s entourage on his first tour of Europe in 1873.
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