avestan

Other forms of avestan

plural

avestans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about avestan

What does avestan mean?

avestan means "an ancient Iranian language". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in avestan?

avestan has 3 syllables: a-ve-stan. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for avestan?

Close synonyms include Zend. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avestan a common word?

avestan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.