Ardashir

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Gender Masculine
Usage Middle Persian
Scripts 饜瓲饜饜饜饜饜饜(Pahlavi)

Meaning & History

Middle Persian form of Old Persian Artax拧a莽a (see Artaxerxes). This was the name of a 3rd-century king of Persia who defeated the Parthians and founded the Sasanian Empire. He also reestablished Zoroastrianism as the state religion.