Avestan

Definition: Avestan

Avestan

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the Avesta (sacred text of Zoroastrianism).

Noun

1. An ancient Iranian language.

2. The script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written.

Specialty Definition: Avestan

Avestan is the language of ancient Persia, surviving only in the sacred Zoroastrian scriptures known as the Zend Avesta. In the past the language was known as 'Zend', but this was later considered a misuse of this word. The oldest form of Avestan, spoken by Zoroaster himself, is found in the Gathas. This is a dialect variant of Vedic, the oldest known form of the Sanskrit language.

Western study of Vedic and Avestan at the end of the 18th century was responsible for the discovery of the Indo-European language group, and thus to the creation of modern linguistics and philology.

Commercial Usage: Avestan

Domain	Title
Books	The Avestan Hymn to Mithra (reference) The Gathas of Zarathushtra : and the other old Avestan texts (reference) Zamyad-Yast : introduction, Avestan text, translation, glossary (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression: Avestan

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Avestan

Rhyming with "Avestan"

Anagrams: Avestan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-n-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: ansate, savant, savate.
	-2 letters: ansae, antae, antas, antes, avant, avast, avens, etnas, nates, naves, neats, stane, stave, vanes, vents, vesta.
	-3 letters: anas, anes, ansa, anta, ante, ants, asea, ates, aves, east, eats, etas, etna, nave, neat, nest, nets, sane, sate, save, seat, sent, seta, tans, tavs, teas, tens, vane, vans, vasa, vase, vast.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-n-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: sanative, tavernas, tsarevna, vantages.
	+2 letters: aventails, evacuants, navigates, tsarevnas, tzarevnas, vanadates.
	+3 letters: advantages, anchovetas, harvestman, leviathans, manservant, narratives, transvalue, vacantness, vaccinates.
	+4 letters: adventitias, aestivating, aestivation, amativeness, anchovettas, animadverts, antislavery, devastating, devastation, evacuations, evaluations, excavations, inactivates, invaginates, invalidates, maidservant, ravagements, translative, transvalued, transvalues, transversal, vacationers, valiantness, vaticinates, vegetarians, vulcanisate.
	+5 letters: adaptiveness, advancements, advantageous, aestivations, alleviations, alternatives, asseverating, asseveration, avitaminoses, carminatives, depravations, devaluations, devastations, disadvantage, evaginations, evaporations, hantaviruses, maidservants, malversation, megavitamins, revaccinates, revaluations, transvaluate, transversals, vacantnesses, variegations, vulcanisates, vulcanizates.
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