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PERSIAN DEITY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A deity worshiped by the ancient Persians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Persian deity" is a kind of...):

deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)

Domain category:

antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)

Instance hyponyms:

Mithra; Mithras (ancient Persian god of light and truth; sun god)

Ahura Mazda; Ormazd; Ormuzd (chief deity of Zoroastrianism; source of light and embodiment of good)

Ahriman (the spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism; arch rival of Ormazd)

Zurvan (the Zoroastrian god of time)

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