Zoroastrianism
//ˌzɒɹəʊˈæstɹɪəˌnɪzəm// name
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster; set forth in the Zend-Avesta; based on concept of struggle between light (good) and dark (evil) wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion. common, uncountable
- 2 The historical (pre-Islamic) indigenous beliefs and practices of the Iranian peoples. uncountable
Example
More examples"It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale."
Etymology
From Zoroastrian + -ism, influenced by Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syriac reports of Zoroaster (“Zarathustra”) as the “lawgiver” of the Iranian peoples, as reviewed in Thomas Hyde's Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis Historia, 1700.
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