Zoroastrianism
Pronunciation Proper noun
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Pronunciation Proper noun
- (common) Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion.
- (scholarly) The historical (pre-Islamic) indigenous beliefs and practices of the Iranian peoples.
- Zoroastrian
- Zarathustrianism (coined by Hermann Lommel (and popularized by Ilya Gershevitch) to denote the prophet's own doctrine as distinguished from later accretions; from Zarathustra, Avestan language name of Zoroaster)
- Zarathustricism (the teachings of Younger Avestan texts, as distinct from Zarathustrianism and also from later accretions)
- French: zoroastrisme
- German: Zoroastrismus, Zarathustrismus
- Italian: zoroastrismo
- Portuguese: zoroastrismo
- Russian: зороастри́зм
- Spanish: zoroastrismo
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