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• ĀB-E ĪSTĀDA

  C. E. Bosworth

  “Still water,” a salt lake in the province of Ḡazna in modern Afghanistan, lying 30 km southeast of the present Ḡazna-Kandahār highway and 100 km south of Ḡazna itself.

• ĀB-ḠŪRA

  N. Ramazani

  (or ĀB-E ḠŪRA), the juice of unripe grapes, used in Persian cuisine.

• ĀB-GŪŠT

  EIr and N. Ramazani

  “meat juice,” a popular Persian meat-based soup or stew, consisting of lamb, some legume, and herb and seasoning.

• ĀB-NĀHĪD

  Mary Boyce

   “Nāhid of the Water,” a Zoroastrian woman’s name, first attested in the poem Vis o Rāmīn.

• ĀB-ZŌHR

  Mary Boyce

  “offering of water,” the Middle Persian form of a Zoroastrian technical term, Av. Ape zaoθra. Making the offering of water is the culminating rite of the main Zoroastrian act of worship, the yasna; and preparing and consecrating it is at the center of the rituals of the second part of this service.

• ʿABĀʾ

  H. Algar

  (in Arabic, also ʿabāʾa and ʿabāya), a loose outer garment, generally for men, worn widely throughout the Middle East, particularly by Arab nomads. 

• ABAD

  Joseph van Ess

  “Eternity a parte post,” Arabic theological term meaning “eternity a parte post” (already in early Muʿtazilite theology); it corresponds to Greek atéleuton. It sometimes also serves as a general term for unlimited time (dahr).

• ĀBĀDA

  C. E. Bosworth

  Name of (1) a small town in northern Fārs province, and (2) a medieval town near the northern shore of Lake Baḵtegān in Fārs.

• ĀBĀDĀN

  Multiple Authors

  island and city in the ostān (province) of Ḵūzestān at the head of the Persian Gulf.

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• ĀBĀDĀN i. History

  L. P. Elwell-Sutton

  In medieval sources, and up to the present century, the name of the island always occurs in the Arabic form ʿAbbādān; this name has sometimes been derived from ʿabbād “worshiper.”