- is a
mythological rather than a
specific historical place. The
Avestan Airyanəm Vaējah and the
Middle Persian Ērān-wēz are
compound terms,
where the first...
- Bengal) to the
Western Sea (Arabian Sea)". The stem airya- also
appears in
Airyanəm Waēǰō (the 'stretch of the Aryas' or the 'Aryan plain'),
which is described...
-
mentions in the
Avesta (sacred
scriptures of Zoroastrianism), like the
Airyanəm Vaēǰō – "Aryans' Expanse", as
distant memories that were
retained by oral...
-
Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The
Avesta also
refers several times to the
Airyanam Dahyunam (airiianąm dahyunąm, Aryas' lands). In the
Fravardin Yasht, these...
-
rather than the empire. The name "Iran" is
first attested in the
Avesta as
airyānąm (the text of
which is
composed in Avestan, an old
Iranian language spoken...
- Like the name of Iran (*Aryānām), the
adjective *aryāna is
related to
Airyanəm Waēǰō ('stretch of the Aryas'), the
mythical homeland of the
early Iranians...
- daiŋˊhāvō ("Iranian lands"), airyō šayanəm ("land
inhabited by Iranians"), and
airyanəm vaējō vaŋhuyāfi dāityayāfi ("Iranian
stretch of the good Dāityā"). In the...
-
Khwarazm to be what
ancient Avestic texts refer to as
Airyanem Vaejah (
Airyanəm Vaēǰah;
later Middle Persian Ērān-wēz).
These sources claim that Old Urgench...
- (proto-Iranian,
meaning "of the Aryans"),
first attested in the
Avesta as
airyānąm (the text of
which is
composed in Avestan, an old
Iranian language spoken...
-
mentions in the
Avesta (sacred
scriptures of Zoroastrianism), like the
Airyanəm Vaēǰō - "Aryans' Expanse", as
distant memories that were
retained by oral...
