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• LOCUST

  Cyrus Abivardi

  (in modern taxonomy, Pers. malaḵ-e mohājer), the term used for any gregarious, short-horned grasshopper. The generic Persian term malaḵ (vs. Mid. Pers. mayg in the Pahlavi Vendidad; Av. maδaxa-) is regarded as a borrowing from an Eastern Iranian language (cf. Pashto malax[ay]).

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• LOMMEL, HERMAN

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  German scholar of Indo-European, chiefly Indo-Iranian studies, and also of religious studies.

• LORI DIALECTS

  Colin MacKinnon

  These are spoken by both settled and migratory folk over a large area of western Iran, including parts of Hamadan Province (at least from Nehāvand southward) through Lorestān to Khuzestan, Čahār Maḥāl and Baḵtiāri, Kohgiluya and Boir Aḥmadi, and Fārs.

• LORI LANGUAGE

  Multiple Authors

  the language of one of Iran’s major ethnic groups, spoken by five million people over the length of the Zagros range. This entry consist of two parts i. Lori dialects  ii. Sociolinguistic status of Lori

• LORI LANGUAGE ii. Sociolinguistic Status of Lori

  Erik J. Anonby

  The array of related dialects collectively known as Lori (autonym: lurī) is spoken among the Lori and Baḵtiāri peoples of the Zagros mountains of western and southwestern Iran and surrounding areas.

• LORIMER, David i. In Persia

  Fereydun Vahman and Garnik Asatrian

  (1876-1962), British Iranist and military and intelligence officer.

• LOTERĀʾI

  Martin Schwartz

  term used by Iranian Jews for speech using local Judeo-Iranian grammar with a special exotic substitutive vocabulary.

• LOUVRE MUSEUM i. IRANIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE COLLECTIONS

  Pierre Amiet

  In 1793, when the Louvre Museum (Musıe du Louvre) was created under the name of Central Museum of Arts (Musıe Centrale des Arts), antiquities were exclusively represented by Greek and Roman sculptures.

• LOUVRE MUSEUM ii. PERSIAN ART IN THE ISLAMIC COLLECTION

  Sophie Makariou

  In 1893 a section devoted to “Muslim Art” was created within the Département des objets d’art, and from the outset objects from Persia have been a most important part of this collection.

• LUKONIN, Vladimir Grigor’evich

  Muhammad Dandamayev and Inna Medvedskaya

  (1932-1984), outstanding Russian scholar in the field of history and history of culture and arts of ancient Iran, from the earliest times until the end of the Sasanian period. He published and introduced to scholarship many artifacts of Iranian culture preserved at the Hermitage Museum, including the unique hoard of Iranian silver drachms of the 3rd century CE and some objects of early Sasanian toreutics.

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