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GAYŌMART
Mansour Shaki
or Gayūmarṯ, Kayūmarṯ; the sixth of the heptad in Mazdean myth of creation, the protoplast of man, and the first king in Iranian mythical history.
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GAYŌMARD (ARTICLE 2)
Carlo Cereti
in the Zoroastrian tradition, a primordial giant, the first man from whom mankind descends.
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GAYSĀTA
Hiroshi Kumamoto
the name of a town in Khotanese documents in the A. F. R. Hoernle, Mark Aurel Stein, Sven Hedin, and N. F. Petrovsky collections.
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GAZ (1)
B. Grami, M. R. Ghanoonparvar
common term in Persian for several species of the genera Tamarix (desert trees) and Astragalus (spiny shrubs of gavan); also the name of a confection made with the sweet exudate (gaz-angobīn) produced on Astragalus.
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GAZ (2)
Minu Yusofnezhad
or Jaz; a town in the province of Isfahan, of the šahrestān of Barḵᵛār and Mayma, situated 18 km north of the city of Isfahan at an altitude of 1,578 m above sea level.
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ḠAZĀ
Cross-Reference
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GAZA
Cross-Reference
See GANZAK.
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GAZACA
Cross-Reference
See GANZAK.
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ḠAŻĀʾERĪ
Etan Kohlberg
nesba of two Imami authors and traditionists (10th-11th centuries).
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ḠAŻĀʾERĪ RĀZĪ, ABŪ ZAYD MOḤAMMAD
François de Blois
or ḠAŻĀYERĪ RĀZĪ, b. ʿALĪ, Persian poet of the early 11th century.