We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of Avestan in English
Russian
авестийский алфавит Catalan
alfabet avèstic 
Alphabet used mainly to write Avestan, the language of the Zoroastrian scripture Avesta.
Related terms
East Iranian language used in Zoroastrian scripture.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "sacred text"
Examples for "sacred text"
1
For demonstrations and lectures are the sacred text of the College students.
2
The sacred text is inscribed in black ink on a gold background.
3
The department receiving greatest favor was the linguistic study of the sacred text.
4
Then they would be given a name from the sacred text.
5
But here we find from the sacred text, that he was in error.
1
It occurs in the Prisse Papyrus, the most ancient sacred writing extant.]
2
But the Christian Church had embodied that doctrine in its sacred writing, and was bound to maintain it.
3
Zoroaster invented this writing which the Magians have called Sin Dabireh, that is to say, the ' sacred writing'.
4
And on the breast, wreathed round with lotus-flowers, lay a large plate of gold closely written over with sacred writing.
5
Bounds set to the scope of our human reason by Deity, 852-m. Boundehesch, an ancient sacred writing concerning Zoroastrianism 612-u.
1
A taste for religious writing prevailed in the Netherlands throughout the sixteenth century.
2
But the worst manifestations of this disease are found in so-called religious writing.
3
In the practical experience of religious writing and the associated experience of reading or listening to a text, the word becomes an instrument of abstraction.
Usage of Avestan in English
1
The present collection is made by combining various Avestan codexes.
2
The collection, such as it was, was in the Avestan dialect, which had grown partially obsolete and unintelligible.
3
Among the Avestan Fragments, attention might finally be called to one which we must be glad has not been lost.
4
The translation of the Avestan books, probably made under these circumstances as early as A. D. 350, is called the Huzvaresch.
5
Other Avestan scholars (A.V.W.
Translations for Avestan
Catalan
Portuguese