David Neil MacKenzie
(1926–2001), distinguished British scholar of Middle and Modern Iranian languages with an impressive record of publications. See MACKENZIE, DAVID NEIL.
- DURA EUROPOS ii. The Inscriptions
ii. INSCRIPTIONS Beside the many documents in Greek, Latin, and Aramaic, there are several written traces of an Iranian presence…
- CHORASMIA iii. The Chorasmian Language
CHORASMIA iii. The Chorasmian Language Chorasmian, the original Iranian language of Chorasmia, is attested at two stages of its development….
- ĒRĀN-WĒZ
ĒRĀN-WĒZ, the Middle Persian designation of the territory of the Aryans. It is the development of an OIr. *aryānām waiǰah…
- GUMĒZIŠN
GUMĒZIŠN, a Middle Persian noun, spelled gwmycšn in Pahlavi and gwmyzyšn in Manichean script, meaning “mixing, mingling, mixture.” It is…
- CONSTELLATIONS
CONSTELLATIONS. Although several of the constellations visible in the northern hemisphere were recognized and named by the Sumerians already in…
- DĀMDĀD NASK
DĀMDĀD NASK, the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) name of one of the lost nasks of the Avesta. It is probably the…
- DARMESTETER, JAMES
DARMESTETER, JAMES (b. Château-Salins, Alsace, 12 March 1849, d. Paris, 19 October 1894), the great Iranist, was the son of…
- DATES AND DATING
DATES AND DATING in Old and Middle Iranian. The only dating formulas preserved in an Old Iranian language are those…
- DUGDŌW
DUGDŌW, the name of Zoroaster’s mother, which appears in several different spellings in the Pahlavi texts, mostly more or less…
- DŪRĀSRAW
DŪRĀSRAW, according to the Pahlavi tradition the name of two legendary personages in the history of Zoroastrianism. The Pahlavi spelling…
- ENGLISH i. Persian Elements in English
ENGLISH i. Persian elements in English. ii. Persian Influences in English and American Literature. iii. Translations of Classical Persian Literature….
- ĒRĀN, ĒRĀNŠAHR
ĒRĀN, ĒRĀNŠAHR. The word ērān is first attested in the titles of Ardašīr I (q.v.), founder of the Sasanian dynasty….
- CODEX CUMANICUS
CODEX CUMANICUS, a manuscript of eighty-two paper leaves, measuring approximately 20 x 14 cm, preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale of…
- ČIHRDĀD NASK
ČIHRDĀD NASK, one of the lost nasks of the Avesta. In the first chapter of book VIII of the Pahlavi…
- AVROMANI
AVROMANI, the dialect of Avroman, properly Hawrāmi, is the most archaic of the Gōrāni group. All Gōrāni dialects exhibit a number…
- AVROMAN DOCUMENTS
AVROMAN DOCUMENTS, three parchments found in a cave in the Kūh-e Sālān, near Šār-e Owrāmān (see Avroman), and brought in…
- AVROMAN
AVROMAN (Hawrāmān, Persian Owrāmān), a mountainous region on the western frontier of Persian Kurdistan. It extends for approximately 50 km,…
- GURĀNI
GURĀNI. Gurāni, taking its name from the dialect now restricted to the region northwest of the village of Gahvāra (35…
- GŌZIHR
GŌZIHR, the Middle Persian development of an old Iranian compound adjective *gau-čiθra-, recorded in the Younger Avesta (Yašt 7, passim;…
- GŌBADŠĀH
GŌBADŠĀH, the name of a mythical ruler first appearing in medieval Zoroastrianism. In Pahlavi his name is variously spelled gwpt-,…
- FRAHANG Ī PAHLAWĪG
FRAHANG Ī PAHLAWĪG, “a Pahlavi dictionary,” is rather a description than the title of an anonymous glossary of some five…
- ANDREAS, FRIEDRICH CARL
ANDREAS, FRIEDRICH CARL, German Iranologist (1846-1930). i. Life and work. ii. The Andreas Nachlass. iii. The Andreas Theory. i. Life…
- ĀMĀRGAR
ĀMĀRGAR, a Middle and New Persian word designating a person holding a particular administrative post. i. Etymology. ii. The post….
- BUNDAHIŠN
BUNDAHIŠN, the name, meaning “Primal creation,” traditionally given to a major Pahlavi work of compilation, mainly a detailed cosmogony and…
- BELLEW, HENRY WALTER
BELLEW, HENRY WALTER (1834-92), surgeon and amateur orientalist, born at Nāṣrābād in India, son of a captain in the Bengal…