DŪḠ, beverage made of yogurt and plain or carbonated water and often served chilled as a refreshing summer drink or…

DRAMA, in formal Western terms a relatively new art form in Persia, though various types of dramatic performance, including religious…

DONBA, the fatty part of the sheep’s tail, traditionally used as a cooking fat, sometimes in melted form, or as…

DOLMA (or dūlma), Turkish term (Doerfer, III, pp. 203-04) for stuffed vegetable or fruit dishes common in the Middle East…

GAZ, common term in Persian for several species of the genera Tamarix (desert trees) and Astragalus (spiny shrubs of gavan);…