AVESTA: Concise dictionary
ABBREVIATIONS:
- []
- base or root form
- [-]
- this is the base or root form
- 1/3
- 1st person plural
- 3/1
- 3rd person singular
- A
- Accusative
- Abl
- Ablative
- act.
- active (= Parasmaipada)
- adj.
- adjective
- adv.
- adverb
- ahm
- Ilya Gershevitch, The Avestan Hymn to Mithra
- aor
- aorist
- Atm.
- Atmanepada - middle
- B.
- Christian Bartholomae,- Altiranishes Woerterbuch
- ben.
- benedictive mood
- Bha.
- Bharucha
- caus.
- causative
- compar.
- comparative
- conj.
- conjunction
- D
- Dative
- decl.
- declension
- dem.
- demonstrative
- des.
- desiderative
- du
- dual
- encl.
- enclitic
- f.
- feminine gender
- fut.
- future
- G
- Genetive
- GAv
- Gathic Avestan dialect
- Herb.
- Herbadastan, ed. Kreyenbroeck & Kotwal
- Hum
- Humbach
- HZI
- Mary Boyce, History of Zoroastrianism, vol I.
- I
- Instrumental
- imp.
- imperative mood
- impf.
- imperfect
- ind.
- indicative
- inf.
- infinitive
- inj.
- injunctive
- interr.
- interrogative
- J
- Jackson, Avesta Grammar
- jAR
- Jackson, Avesta Reader
- k
- Kavasji Edalji Kanga, A Complete Dictionary of the Avesta
Language, Bombay, 1900
- L
- Locative
- lit.
- literally
- m.
- masculine gender
- mal.
- William W. Malandra, Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion
- mid.
- middle (= Atmanepada)
- mn.
- mnemonic
- N
- Nominative
- n.
- neuter gender
- num.
- numeral
- obj.
- object
- opt.
- optative
- part.
- participle
- parasm.
- parasmaipada (=active)
- pass.
- passive
- perf.
- perfect
- pers.
- person, personal
- Pl.
- plural
- poss.
- possessive
- pot.
- potential mood
- pr. n.
- proper noun
- pred.
- predicative
- pref.
- prefix
- prep.
- preposition
- pres.
- present tense
- pret.
- preterite
- pron.
- pronoun
- rt.
- root
- Sg.
- singular
- subj.
- subjunctive mood
- superl.
- superlative
- them.
- thematic
- trad.
- traditional
- V
- Vocative
- v.
- verb, verbal
- StdAv
- Standard Avestan dialect (sometimes called "Younger" Avestan)