1743, from Zoroaster, from Latin Zoroastres, from Old Persian Zarathushtra, 6c. or 7c. B.C.E. Persian religious teacher. The name appears to be literally "whose camels are old," from *zarant "old" (cognate with Greek geron, genitive gerontos "old;" see gerontology) + ushtra "camel." As a noun from 1811.
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1. He claims that some Zoroastrian ideas influenced on Christian thinking.
他聲稱一些瑣羅亞斯德教的思想影響著基督教.
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2. Other religious groups include Christianity, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhist and Zoroastrian.
其他的宗教團體包括了基督教 、 錫克教 、 耆那教 、 佛教和祆教.
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3. But in the Zoroastrian faith, Ahura Mazda is abstract and transcendent.
但在瑣羅亞斯德教的信仰里面, 阿胡瑪茲達是抽象和超然的.
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4. Zoroastrian were forced to flee into the desert.
瑣羅亞斯德教教徒被迫逃入沙漠.
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5. He met with increasing hostility from the Zoroastrian priests and was finally executed for heresy.