...men-, "to think". Cognates include Ancient Greek menos ("life, vigor") and Avestan mainyu, "spirit".
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...erhaps embodied. As a word for ''rain'' or ''liquid'', dānu is compared to Avestan dānu ''river'', and further to river names like Don, Danube, Dneiper, Dnie
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Aśvaḥ is a Sanskrit word for a horse. The corresponding Avestan term is aspa. The word is cognate to Latin equus, Greek ίππος (hippos)
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''Khrafstra'' means ''wild beast, predator''' in Avestan.
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...f Armenian աստղ astġ, meaning "star", which is associated to Sanskrit stṛ, Avestan star, Pahlavi star, Persian sitara´, Pashto storai, Latin and Italian stel
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...rsian Pāzand as ''Sīna-Mrū''. The Middle Persian term derives in turn from Avestan ''m''ə''r''ə''γō Saēnō'' "the bird Saena", originally a raptor, likel
...and messenger between the two. The Simorgh roosted in Gaokerena, the Hom (Avestan: Haoma) Tree of Life, which stands in the middle of the world sea Vourukhas
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'''Azhi Dahaka''' (Avestan Great Snake) is a dragon or demonic figure in the texts and mythology of Zo
...meaning "[he who has] 10,000 horses". Aži (nominative ažiš) is the Iranian Avestan word for "serpent" or "dragon". It is cognate to the Vedic Sanskrit word ah
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'''Azhi Dahaka''' (Avestan Great Snake) is a dragon or demonic figure in the texts and mythology of Zo
...meaning "[he who has] 10,000 horses". Aži (nominative ažiš) is the Iranian Avestan word for "serpent" or "dragon". It is cognate to the Vedic Sanskrit word ah
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Avestan 'angra mainyu' "seems to have been an original conception of Zoroaster's."
...in Yasna 30.3, where the antithesis is however 'aka mainyu', aka being the Avestan language word for "evil." Hence, 'aka mainyu' is the "evil spirit" or "evil
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...]] ([[Ahriman]]) as the ultimate agent of evil. As the [[Iran|Iranian]] [[Avestan]] and [[Vedic religion|Vedic]] traditions and also other branches of [[Indo
...German [[Tiw]]), but also provided another other common word for demon in Avestan [[Div (Persian mythology)|daeva]
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The name Asmodai is believed to derive from Avestan language *aēšma-daēva, where aēšma means "wrath", and daēva signifies
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