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PAIRIKĀ
(3,594 words)
a class of female demonic beings in the Avesta, often translated “sorceress, witch, or enchantress.”
PAIRIKĀ, feminine, non-Gathic Avestan noun denoting a class of female demonic beings in the Avesta and often translated “sorceress, witch, or enchantress.” We shall deal with the Avestan term
pairikā- (I.-E.
*parikehₐ-, OPers. *
parikā-, MPers.
parīg, Sogh.
prʾyk
h, Manich. MPers.
parīg, Khot.
palīkā-, Pers.
parī, Pashto
pēraī, Nuristanī
pari/bari/barai, Arm.
parik) chronologically, beginning with (1) the suggested etymologies, (2) the Old Iranian phase, then co…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
Date:
2012-12-11
ʿOLAMĀ-YE ESLĀM
(1,417 words)
“The Doctors of Islam,” title given to two medieval Zoroastrian polemical treatises written in Modern Persian.
ʿOLAMĀ
-YE ESLĀM “The Doctors of Islam,” title given to two medieval Zoroastrian polemical treatises written in Modern Persian. More precisely, the title of the second treatise is “Another Version of the Doctors of Islam” (Pers.
ʿOlamā-ye Eslām be-digar raveš). The Bibliothéque National de France houses a manuscript (No. 1022/7) which includes the second treatise among other works in Persian collected by E. Blochet (Aḏkāʾi, 1990, p. 344). T…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
Date:
2012-11-08
