Get to know Avestan better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like zend or iranian.
Avestan in a sentence
Avestan meaning
- An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
- An alphabet which was developed based on Pahlavi scripts and used to write Avestan and Middle Persian languages.
Synonyms of Avestan
Using Avestan
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta. | An alphabet which was developed based on Pahlavi scripts and used to write Avestan and Middle Persian languages.
- Useful related words include: sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text.
Context around Avestan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Avestan
- In this selection, "avestan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, text, iranian, main, loanwords and word stand out and add context to how "avestan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the avestan uštra with and germanic are avestan yārǝ year. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "avestan" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with avestan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The absence of any older Iranian (Avestan) loanwords in Brahui supports this hypothesis. (13 words)
The word Mazda-Yasna is avestan and is translated as "Worship of Wisdom" in English. (15 words)
Religious text Avestan main The Avesta is the religious book of Zoroastrians that contains a collection of sacred texts. (19 words)
The two words appear to be derived from the same Indo-European form *ṇ-mṛ-tós, "un-dying" citation Mallory also connects to this root an Avestan word, and notes that the root is "dialectally restricted to the IE southeast". (40 words)
Zoroastrian morality is then to be summed up in the simple phrase, "good thoughts, good words, good deeds" (Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta in Avestan ), for it is through these that asha is maintained and druj is kept in check. (38 words)
The Greek form of the name appears to be based on a phonetic transliteration or semantic substitution of Avestan zaraϑ- with the Greek zōros (literally "undiluted") and the Avestan -uštra with astron (" star "). (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
The Greek form of the name appears to be based on a phonetic transliteration or semantic substitution of Avestan zaraϑ- with the Greek zōros (literally "undiluted") and the Avestan -uštra with astron (" star ").
Cognates outside of Germanic are Avestan yārǝ "year", Greek ὥρα main "year, season, period of time" (whence " hour "), Old Church Slavonic jarŭ and Latin hornus "of this year".
Religious text Avestan main The Avesta is the religious book of Zoroastrians that contains a collection of sacred texts.
The absence of any older Iranian (Avestan) loanwords in Brahui supports this hypothesis.
The two words appear to be derived from the same Indo-European form *ṇ-mṛ-tós, "un-dying" citation Mallory also connects to this root an Avestan word, and notes that the root is "dialectally restricted to the IE southeast".
The word Mazda-Yasna is avestan and is translated as "Worship of Wisdom" in English.
Zoroastrian morality is then to be summed up in the simple phrase, "good thoughts, good words, good deeds" (Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta in Avestan ), for it is through these that asha is maintained and druj is kept in check.