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• FRATARAKA

  Josef Wiesehöfer

  lit. “leader, governor, forerunner”; ancient Persian title.

• FRAVARTISH

  Cross-Reference

  Median rebel against Darius I. See PHRAORTES.

• FRAVAŠI

  Mary Boyce

  the Avestan word for a powerful supernatural being whose concept at an early stage in Zoroastrianism became blended with that of the urvan (the human soul).

• FRAWĀG

  Cross-reference

  See SĪĀMAG.

• FRAWAHR

  Cross-reference

  See FRAVAŠI.

• FRAWARDĪGĀN

  William W. Malandra

  name of the ten-day Zoroastrian festival (gāhānbār) at year’s end in honor of the spirits of the dead.

• FRAWARDĪN

  Cross-reference

  name of the nineteenth day of a month and also the name of the first month of the year in the Zoroastrian calendar. See CALENDARS i.

• FRAWARDĪN YAŠT

  Mary Boyce

  the thirteenth of the Zoroastrian yašt hymns, devoted to the fravašis.

• FRĀXKARD

  Ahmad Tafazzoli

  name of the cosmic ocean in Iranian mythology.

• FREĬMAN, Aleksandr Arnol’dovich

  Solomon Bayevsky

  (1879-1968), founder and the head of the Soviet school of the comparative-historical method in Iranian linguistics. For sixty years, Freĭman worked in various areas of Iranian languages. His work on Sogdian, Chorasmian, and Ossetic is especially important.

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