Ormazd

American  

[awr-muhzd] / ˈɔr məzd /

Or Ormuzd

noun

1. Ahura Mazda.

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Ormazd British  

/ ˈɔːməzd /

noun

1. Also called: Ahura Mazda.  Zoroastrianism the creative deity, embodiment of good and opponent of Ahriman

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Etymology

Origin of Ormazd

from Persian, from Avestan Ahura-Mazda, from ahura spirit + mazdā wise

Example Sentences

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Ormazd

But the 19th century romantics fail as an example of "great death" since they were, in part, reveling in a philosophy as old as Isis, Ormazd and Ahriman, the Celtic druids, Gnosticism, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

I invoke the Fravashi of good men, the Fravashi of Ormazd, the Fravashi of my own soul!

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

Ormazd now completed his creation upon the earth.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

All that comes from Ormazd is pure, from Ahriman impure; and bodily purity has a like worth with moral purity.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

The Arsacid monarchs of Armenia allowed the Sacred Fire of Ormazd, which ought to have been kept continually burning, to go out; and we can scarcely suppose but that the Parthian Arsacidae shared their negligence.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George