Teresa P. Omidsalar
- FOX ii. IN PERSIA
FOX (Av. raopi-, Mid. Per: rōbāh; NPers. rūbāh; Figure 1). ii. IN PERSIA In pre-Islamic Iran, the fox was considered…
- DĀYA
DĀYA, wet nurse (Mid. Pers. dāyag, Av. daēnu-, “female animal,” Kurdish dā, dī, dīa “mother,” Sanglechi dāya “nurse”; cf. Oss….
- FABLE
FABLE, a kind of story often defined as “an animal tale with a moral” (Funk and Wagnalls, s.v. “Fable”; cf….
- DONKEY i. In Persian tradition and folk belief
DONKEY i. In Persian tradition and folk belief The donkey (Equus hydrunitinus, Equus asinus asinus, etc.; Pers. ḵar, darāz-gāš), domesticated species…
- DOG
Bibliography: J.-P. Digard, Techniques des nomades Baxtyâri, Cambridge and Paris, 1981. L. Dupree, Afghanistan, Princeton, N.J., 1978; repr. Princeton, N.J., 1980. i….
- ḠUL
ḠUL, designation of a fantastic, frightening creature in the Perso-Arabic lore. It is a hideous monster with a feline head,…