ARMENIA AND IRAN iv. Iranian Influences in Armenian i. General ARMENIAN, the language of the Armenians, which is attested in…

BALYSA- (Khotan Saka), bārza- (Tumšuq Saka), a word adapted to Buddhist use for the transcendental Buddha. In pronunciation, b was…

BAGA, an Old Iranian term for “god,” sometimes designating a specific god. i. General. ii. In Old and Middle Iranian….

ARYA, an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition. It is used in the Avesta…

ALANS, an ancient Iranian tribe of the northern (Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Massagete) group, known to classical writers from the first…