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Zarathustrism

Zarathustrism is the archaic form of Zoroastrianism.

Meaning of Zoroastrianism

Proper noun

Zoroastrianism (uncountable)

  1. (common) Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion.
  2. The historical (pre-Islamic) indigenous beliefs and practices of the Iranian peoples.

Questions about Zarathustrism

What is Zarathustrism the archaic form of?
Zarathustrism is the archaic form of Zoroastrianism.

Words near Zarathustrism in the dictionary

  1. Zarathustrian
  2. Zarathustrianism
  3. Zarathustrians
  4. Zarathustric
  5. Zarathustricism
  6. Zarathustrism
  7. zaratite
  8. zaratites
  9. Zaraysky
  10. Zarayskys
  11. Zarazua

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Zarathustrism (page history and authors); Zoroastrianism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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