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Name of people from Tonya and Beshikdüzü (Trabzon) which was given by Salpazarı Turkomans. It means native (Anatolian, Greek origin) or not Turkoman. It’s mean also “oppressive, heartless” in adjectival use. The ‘ahriyan’name of Muslims (Pomak) who live in the Balkans and speak Bulgarian (Menage,1969), given by Turkmens because they are not from Turk generation.There is a place called Ahriyan in Iskece city in West Thrace (Greece) In Ottoman language ahriyan means “valuable, beautiful clothe” OSM 18

Ahriyan word derives from Persian word Ahura Mazda. It creates twin soul and one of this soul, Angra Mainyu chooses badness counsciousliy so he creates death. The main theme is the war between Angra Mainyu and Ahura Mazda in Zoroastran teology which is an antique Iran religion .In Sasanies times the common language was mid term Persian (Pahlavi) and Angra Mainyu was called ahriman in this language. At least after a thousand-year oral tradition ,in twenty one-part Avesta which was probably written in BC. 6 , ‘angra’ means enemy, sin, bad and ‘mainyu’( mainyêush, mainyô, mainyush, mainyû) means soul,invisibility,spiritual. Although it is used common ahriman forms in Anatolia,there appear to be uncommon ahriman forms in Salpazarı which has Alevilik (partisan of the caliph Ali) features


Source

Blacksea: Enyclopedic Dictionary (Özhan Öztürk. Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük. 2. Cilt. Heyamola Publishing. Istanbul. 2005. ISBN 975-6121-00-9.

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