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English-Avesta Dictionary by K.E. Kanga

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Many thanks to Soli Dastur for kindly contributing this rare and valuable work.

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piii - Preface

pvi - Biographical sketch of the late Mr. Kavasji Edalji Kanga.

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A
Ab, L pref.
Aback
Aback (unexpectedly)
Abandon
Abandoning
Abash
Abashment
Abate
Abatement
Abdest
Abdomen
Abduct
Aberrent
Aberration
Abet
Abhor
Abhorrence
Abide (dwell)
Abiding (residing)
Abiding (permanent)
Ability
Abject
Abjectness, Abjection
Abjure
Abjuration
Ablaze
Able
Able: To be able
Ablution
Abnegate
Abnormal
Abode

Abolish
Abolition
Abominable
Abominate
Abortive
About
Above, adv
Above
Above (more than)
Abroad
Abrogate
Abscission
Absence
Absolute
Absolition
Absolve
Abstain
Abstract (summary)
Abridge
Abridgement
Abundance (affluence)
Abundance (large quantity)
Abundant
Abundantly
Abuse
Abyss
Accede
Accelerate
Accent

Accept
Acceptable
Acceptance, Accepting
Acceptor
Access
Accession (enlargement)
Accident
Accompany
Accompanied with
Accomplish
Accomplishing
Accomplished
Accomplishment
Accord, v.
Accord, subs
Accordance
According to
Accordingly
Account: On that account
Account: On account of
Account: For making account (of the good and evil deeds) of men
Accountant
Accoutred
Accumulate
Accumulation
Accusation
Accrue
Accurse
Accursed
Achieve: To be achieved
Achievement
Achill: The Persian Achilles, Asfandyâr, the most heroic of the sons of King Vishtasp
Acknowledge: To be acknowledged
Acknowledge: Acknowledge with due respect
Acknowledgement
Acme
Acquaint

Acquaint
Acquainted
Acquiesce
Acquiescense
Acquire
Acquirement, Acquisition, Acquiring
Acrimony
Across, prep.
Across (traversely)
Act, subs.
Act, v.
Acting
Action
Active
Active: To be active
Active: Making active
Activity
Actuate
Actor
Acute
Acuteness
Ad, L. pref.
Adage
Adamant
Adapt
Adapted
Adar (Yazata)
Adarbad
Addition

Addition: Intoned with additions (as verses)
Address (skill)
Address (discourse)
Address, v.
Address (in prayer)
Adept
Adequacy
Adequate
Adhere
Adherent
Adherence
Adhering to
Adhesion (attachment)
Adjoin
Adjudge, Adjudicate
Adjust
Adjusting
Adjustment
Adjutor
Admirable
Admirer
Administer
Admission
Admit (concede)
Admittance
Admonish
Admonisher, Admonitor
Admonition
Adopt
Adorable
Adoration
Adore
Adored
Adorer

Adorn
Adorned
Adornment
Adroit
Adroitness
Adult
Adultery
Advance (promote)
Advance (proceed)
Advance, subs.
Advancement
Advancing
Advantage
Advantageous
Adventure
Adventurous
Adverse
Adversary
Adversity
Advertise
Advertisement
Advice
Advise
Adze
Aerial space
Afar
Affair
Affable
Affection
Affection: To feel affection for
Affectionate
Affectionately
Affianced
Affinity
Affirm
Affirmation
Affix (fasten)
Affix (as a crime)

Affixed
Afflict
Affliction
Afflictive
Affluence
Affluent, adj.
Affluent, subs
Afford (be able to bear expenses)
Afford (give)
Affording
Affright, v.
Affright, subs.
Affront
Afoot
Afraid
Afrasyab (the Turanian King)
Afresh
After (according to)
After, prep.
After (behind, following)
Afternoon
Afterwards
Again
Against
Agape
Age
Age (old age)
Age: Of a tender age (as a boy or a girl)
Agency
Agent
Agglomerate
Agglomeration
Aggress
Aggressor
Aggressive
Aggrieve, Vide Afflict
Aghraeratha, (brother of Afrasyab)
Agile

Agile; To be agile
Agile: To make agile
Agility
Agitate (disturb)
Agony
Agree
Agreeable
Agreement (contract)
Agreement (conformity)
Agriculture
Agriculturist
Ague
Ah
Ahriman
Ahunavar [Ahunwar] (the mystic and well-known prayer)
Ahura
Aid, subs.
Aid, v.
Aiding
Ailment
Aim (mark)
Aim (view)
Aim at
Aiming, Vide Hitting.
Air (atmosphere)
Air (aspect)
Akhtya (the sorcerer)
Alack, Vide Alas.
Alarm
Alarm: To take alarm
Alas
Alborz, the Mount.
Alert

Alert
Alcoholic
Alias
Alien
Alienate
Align
Alike, pref.
Alike, adv.
Aliment
Alive
All
Ally (repress)
Allay (pacify)
Allege
Allegiance
Alley
Alleviate
Alliance
Allied
Alligator
Allocate, Allot
Allocation, Allotment
Allot: One who allots
Allow
Allure
Alluring
Allusion
Ally, v.
Ally, subs.
Alms
Aloe-wood
Alone
Along
Aloof
Also

Alter
Altercate
Altitude
Alvand, Mount
Always
Amalgamate
Amaranthine
Amass
Amaze
Amazement
Ambassador
Ambition
Ambitions
Ambignity
Ambo L. pref.
Ambrosia
Ambush, Ambuscade
Amelioration
Amen
Amends
Amends: To make amends
Amerdad [Amurdad]
Ameshaspand (Archangel)
Amicable
aAmity
Among, Amongst
Amount
Ample
Amplification
Amplitude
Amputate
Amusement
Amusing
Ana, Gr. pref.
Analogous

Anathematize
Ancient (of long duration)
Ancient (aged)
Ancestor
And
Andirons
Angel
Anger, v.
Anger, subs.
Angle
Angrily
Angry; To be angry
Anguish
Animal
Animals and men
Animal: Animal creation
Animate (incite)
Animate, adj.
Animated
Animosity
Ankle, Ankle-bone
Anklet
Annex
Annex lengthwise
Annihilate
Annihilate: To be annihilated
Annihilation, Annihilating
Announce
Announcement

Annoy
Annoyer
Annoyance
Annual, Annually
Annul
Anomalous
Anon
Another
Answer (of good beings), v. Vide Reply.
Answer (of evil beings)
Answer, v.
Answer, subs.
Ant
Ant-hill
Antagonist
Antagonism
Antecedent
Ante-demoniac
Anterior
Anti, Gr. pref.
Anthem
Anticipative
Anticipate
Antipathy
Antique
Anus
Anxiety
Anxious
Anxious; To make (a person) anxious or greatly concerned
Any, Anyone
Anyhow
Anywhere
Apace
Apart, adv.
Apart from, prep.
Apartment
Apathetic
Apex
Apiveh (son of Kaikobad)
Aphorism
Apo, Gr. pref.
Apollo: Zoroastrian Apollo
Apology
Apostate
Apostle

Appal
Appaling
Appalment
Apparel, Vide Garment.
Apparent
Apparentness
Apparition
Appeal, v.
Appeal, subs.
Appear (seem)
Appear (come forth)
Appearance
Appearing (visible)
Appease
Appeased
Appeasement
Appeasing
Appelation
Append
Appertaining
Applaud
Applause
Apple
Applicant
Application
Apply
Appoint
Appointed
Appointment
Apportion
Apportionment
Apposite
Appreciate
Apprehend
Apprehension (seizing)
Apprehension (anxiety)
Apprise
Apprised
Approach
Approach towards, v.
Approach, subs.
Approbation
Approbation: To receive with approbation

Appropriate
Approval
Approve
Apt
Aquatic
Aqueduct
Aquiesce [Acquiesce]
Arable
Arbalist
Arbiter
Arbitrament
Arbitrary
Arbitrate
Arbirator
Arborial
Arch (bow)
Archangel
Archdemon
Archer
Architect
Ardent
Ardently
Ardibehesht [Ardwahisht] (archangel)
Ardibehesht [Ardwahisht] (the second month of the year)
Ardibehesht [Ardwahisht] (the third day of every month)
Ardour
Arduous
Arena
Argentine
Argument
Arid
Aridity, Aridness
Aright
Arise (rise up)
Arise (to be produced)
Aristocracy
Arjasp, (The Turanian King)
Arm (limb of the body)
Arm (A measure of about 36 inches)

Arm: (a stone) flung from the arm
Arm (weapon)
Arm (strengthen)
Armed
Armstring
Armour (cuirass)
Armpit
Army
Army: The front row of the army
Army: Smiting the rows of the army
Arnavâz (a daughter of Jamshed)
Aroma
Around
Arouse
Arraignment
Arrange
Arrangement
Arranging
Array (the lines of an army)
Arrest (detension)
Arrest (stay)
Arrest (seize)
Arrest (secure)
Arrive

Arrival, Arriving
Arrogance
Arrogant
Arrow
Arrow: To force out (an arrow) with a whizzing sound
Art
Artful
Artfulness
Artless
Artlessness
Articulate
Articulation
Articulation (Joint)
Artifice
Artificer, Artist
Artisan
Arya
Aryan
As
As before
As before (used in compounds)
As long as
As many
As much
As much as
As it were
As well
As well as
Ascend
Ascendency
Ascent
Ascertain
Ascribe
Asfandyar (the most heroic of the sons of King Gushtasp)

Ashes
Ashem Vohu (the antique prayer)
Ashtad (yazata)
Aside
Ask
Ask about
Ask again
Ask for
Ask ernestly
Asked
Asking
Asleep
Asmodeus
Aspandarmad [Spandarmad[ (archangel)
Aspect
Asperity
Asperse
Asperser
Aspersion
Aspire
Aspirant, Aspirer
Aspiration
Aspiring
Ass
Assail
Assailant
Assassin
Assassinate
Assault, subs.
Assault, v.
Assemble
Assemblage
Assembler
Assembly
Assent, subs.
Assent, v.
Assenting
Assert
Assertion
Assertive
Asseverate
Asseveration
Assiduity
Assiduous
Assidousness, Vide Assiduity
Assign
Assignment
Assist
Assistance

Assistant
Assisting
Associate, subs.
Associate, v.
Association
Assuage
Assuming (haughty)
Assurance
Assure
Assuredly
Assuredness
Astir
Astonishment
Astonishing
Astound
Astounding
Astray: Go astray
Astute
Astuteness
Asunder
At
At last
At once
Atarvakshi (a priestly order)
Athwart
Athwyan (Father of King Faridoon)
Atmosphere
Atone
Atone for (a crime) thoroughly
Atoned for
Atonement
Atoning
Atrocious
Attach to
Attached to

Attachment
Attack, subs.
Atack, v
Attack suddenly or unawares
Attacking
Attain
Attainment
Attempt, subs.
Attempt, v.
Attend (follow)
Attend to
Attend (take care)
Attention
Attentive
Attenuate
Attenuated
Attest
Attire, v.
Attire, subs. Vide Garment
Attract
Attracting
Attribute, subs.
Attribute, v.
Auburn
Audacious
Audaciousness, Audacity
Audible
Audience, Auditory
Audition
Auditory. Auditory sense
Audit
Auditor
Aught
Augment, subs.
Augment, v.
Augmentation
August
Aunt: A paternal or maternal aunt
Aureate
Aurora
Auspice
Auspicious
Austere
Austral

Authority: to exercise authority

Aversion: To have aversion to

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Babbler
Bade, Baby
Babylon
Bachelor
Back, subs.
Back, adv.
Back, v.
Backbite
Backbiter
Backbone
Backslide
Backslider
Bactria
Backwards
Bad
Badness
Badge
Baffle
Baffled
Bake
Balcony
bald
Bale, (bundle)

Bale (calamity)
Baleful
Balk: To be balked
Ballista
Balm
Bamboo
Bamboozle
Ban (to curse)
Band (a tie)
Band (party)
Band (host)
Bandit
Bandy-legged
Bane
Baneful
Banish
Bank
Banner
Banneret
Banns
Banquet
Banter, subs.
Bar (obstruction)
Bar (obstruct)
Barbarian
Barbarity
Barbarous
Bare, (naked)
Barefaced
Barefacedness
Baresman (the twigs of the pomegranate tree used in the Yasna and the Vendidad ceremonies)
Baragin
Bark
Barley, Barleycorn
Barren (unfruitful)
Barren, (sterile)

Barrenness (sterility)
Barricade, subs.
Barricade, v.
Barrier (obstruction)
Barrier (fence)
Barter, subs.
Barter, v.
Base, adj.
Base, subs.
Baseness
Basin (vessel)
Basin: The northern basin of the Tigris (Rangha)
Basis
Bask
Basket
Bastion
Bathe
Bathing
Battalion
Battle
Battle-array
Battle-axe
Battlement
Bawl out: Vide Cry out loud.
Be, Become
Be (to exist)
Beach
Beacon (to signal)
Beam (ray)
Beam (of a house)
Beam (to shine)
Beaming
Bear, subs.

Bear (in mind)
Bear (endure)
Bear (carry)
Bear, (as fruits)
Bear (give birth)
Beard
Bearer
Bearing (carrying)
Beast
Beat
Beat (as corn)
Beating, subs.
Beatitude
Beauteous, Beautiful
Beautify
Beaver (animal)
Beaver (visor)
Because
Become

Bed, Bedding
Bedeck
Befall
Befalling, subs.
Befit
Befool
Befooling, subs.
Before, prep.
Before, adv.
Before (in front of)
Before (near)
Beforehand
Befriend
Befriended
Beg
Begem
Beget
Begetter
Begetting
Beggar
Beggary
Beginning, subs.
Beginning, adj.
Begird
Begirt
Beguile, Vide Deceive
Behave
Behavious
Behind, prep.
Behind, adv.
Behold
Behove
Being, subs.
Being, pres. pt. Vide Existing.
Bejewel
Belabour
Belch
Belfrey
Belie
Belied
Belief
Believe

Believer; A false believer
Believing, adj.
Bell
Belle
Bellows
Belly
Belonging to
Beloved, adj.
Beloved, subs.
Below, prep.
Below, adv.
Belt
Belying, subs.
bemoan
Bemoaning
Bend, v. tr.
Bend, v. intr.
Bending, adj.
Beneath, prep.
Benediction
Benefactor
Benefactress
Beneficence
Beneficent
Benefit, subs.
Benefit, v.
Benefiting
Benevolence
Benevolent
Benign, Benignant
Bent (disposition)
Benumb
Benzoin
Bereave

Beseech
Beseecher
Beset
Beside
Besides
Besiege
Besmear
Bespangle
Bespangling
Besprinkle
Best
Bestep
Bestir
Bestow
Bestowed
Bestower
Bestowing, subs.
Bestowing, adj.
Bestrew
Bestride
Betake (oneself)
Betimes
Betrothed
Better
Betterment
Between
Beverage
Bewail
Bewilder
Bewitch
Bewitchery, Bewitchment
Bewitching
Beyond
Bid
Big
Bigamist
Bile

Billow
Bind
Biped
Bird
Birth (lineage)
Birth
Birth. To give birth to
Biscuit
Bisulcate
Bit (piece)
Bitch
Bite
Biting
Bitter (severe)
Black
Black art
Blade
Blame
Bland
Blandish
Blanket
Blasphemous
Blasphemy
Blaze, v.
Blaze, subs.
Blazing
Bleak
Bleating
Blend
Blend together
Bless
Blessed

Blessedness
Blessing
Blind, adj.
Blind, v.
Blind: To be blind
Bliss
Blockhead
Blood
Blood (descent)
Blood (of a dead person)
Bloodshed
Blood-stained
Blood-thirsty
Bloody
Bloom
Blossom
Blot (stain)
Blot out
Blow, subs.
Blow, v. intr.
Blow, v. tr.
Blow out (fire)
Bludgeon

Bludgeon-bearer
Blunder, subs.
Boar
Bodily
Body
Boil up
Boiler
Bold, Boldest
Bold: To be bold
Bond, Vide Captivity.
Bonds, Vide Fetters
Bondsman
Bone
Book
Boon
Boot
Booty
Border (boundary)
Border (fringe)
Bore, v.
Born: To be born
Born
Borough

Bosom (depth)
Bosom (breast)
Both
Bottom
Bough
Bound, subs.
Bound (tied)
Bound (obliged)
Boundary
Boundless
Bounding against
Bounteous
Bountiful
Bounty
Bovine
Bow, v.
Bow (instrument for shooting arrows with)
Bow (stooping)
Bowels
Bowl
Bow-string
Boy
Boy (servent)

Bracelet
Braid
Braided
Brains
Branch (of a tree)
Branching-off
Brand (mark), subs.
Brand (stigma)
Brand (burning piece of wood)
Brandish
Brass
Brave, adj.
Brave, v.
Bravery
Bravo
Brawl
Brazenness
Breach
Breach of trust
Breach: To make a breach
Bread
Breadth
Breadthways
Break
Break down
Break (a treaty)
Breaking asunder
Breaking down
Breast, subs.
Breast (nipple)

Breast-plate
Breath (of wind)
Breath: To be out of breath
Breathe
Breathing
Breeches
Breed, subs.
Breed (procreate)
Breeze
Breezy
Bribe
Brick
Bridge
Bridge (of the nose)
Bridle, subs.
Bridle, v.
Bridled
Brigand
Brigandage
Bright
Brighten up
Brightness
Brilliancy
Brilliant
Brilliant religious lore

Brim
Brimstone
Bring
Bring about
Bring back
Bring down
Bring forth (give birth to)
Bring out
Bring to
Bring together
Bring up
Bringing
Bringing near
Bringing together
Brink
Brisk
Briskness
Bristle, subs.
Broad
Broaden, v. inter.
Broaden, v. tr.
Broken (crushed)
Brood (of evil creation)
Brook, Brooklet
Brook, v.
Broom
Brother
Brotherhood, Brotherliness
Brought

Brought out
Brow, subs.
Brown
Bruise, subs.
Bruise, v.
Brush, v.
Brutal
Brutality
Bubble
Buck (goat)
Buckle
Buckler
Bud. subs.
Build
Building, subs.
Built up
Bulge (knob)
Bulged forward
Bulk
Bulky
Bull
Bulwark
Burden
Burial
Burial-ground
Burier (of dead bodies)
Burn
Burn up
Burning (ardent)
Burning of the corpse [cremation]
Burning: Burning wrath
Burrow
Bury
Burying (of corpses)
Bush

Business
Busy
But
Butter
Buttock (hip)
Buttress
Buzzing. Vide Droning.
By, prep.
By-spoken

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Cabal (clique)
Cadaverous
Cadence
Calamitous
Calamity
Calculate
Caldron, Cauldron
Calf (of the leg)
Call (invite)
Call (to name)
Call (summons)
Call on (for assistance)
Callous
Calm, v. tr.
Calm, v. intr.
Calm, adj.
Calmness
Calumniate
Calumniator
Calumnious
Calumny
Camel
Camel-stall
Camp, subs.
Canal
Cancel

carriage

caution

chanting

checkmate

china

claw

climb

coat

combustion

coming

complete

condemn

conquer

consultation

contract

corn

count

covenant

created

cross

curb

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daeva

darkness

daytime

debt

decrease

deficient

delivered

deposition

desire

destroyer

devout

dinner

discomfit

disinclination

dissension

divide

donation

dread

dross

dust

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earring

eclat

eighteen

embitter

enclosed

energy

entertain

etcetera

evilspeaking

exchangeable

exist

express

exult

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faint

fame

fastened

felicitate

feud

fighting

finger

first

flee

flow

foggy

foresighted

fortyfive

four sides

freebooter

frivolous

fumigate

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gall

generous

girl

glisten

go back

golden

goodminded

grasp

griffin

guarded

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hail

handsome

harass

hasten

health

heave

helping

hideous

hobbling

honour

hostile

humour

husband

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immesh

imprecate

incapability

increase

inebriate

ingenuousness

insertion

instruction

intercede

intone

invoke

issue

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kavilike

kind

knowing

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languid

layman

leave

libation

light

living

longlasting

love

lying

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mare

matron

meditated

merchandise

middlesized

mind

miserable

misty

month

mortar

move

mathra

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nature

neither

nine

noon

number

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observant

offering

open

ordered

outside

overreach

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pack

paradise

passover

path

penitence

perjurer

pestilence

pleasing

poison

post

praise

precinct

present

priestly

produce

profuse

proper

protecting

puppy

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quit

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raised

reaching

recent

redeliverance

regulate

religion

remount

repose

resort

retract

reward

righteous

rising

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sacrifice

sanctity

scream

sediment

seized

sense

setting

shape

shelter

shout

similar

slanderer

smite

snort

solitariness

southern

spearsman

spiritual

sprig

stamped

steadily

stone

strengthen

strong

subordinate

summer

suppression

swell

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taking

team

territory

therefore

thought

through

tiller

trained

tremble

truthfulness

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unbounded

undismayed

uniform

unpunishable

unworthiness

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valley

verse

vileness

void

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want

watching

weakness

well

wellsubordinated

white

wilderness

wisdom

without

word

wound

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year

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appendix

appendix

appendix

appendix

appendix

errata

errata

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