haoma

See also: Haoma and hàomǎ

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From Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma), from Old Iranian verbal root hu ("to press"), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *su- (“to press out, extract”), whence also derives Sanskrit सोम (sóma, “soma”).

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(Zoroastrianism) A plant and corresponding personified divinity, Haoma.
- 1999, Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst, Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible: DDD, p. 384:
  The offering of haoma was a common practice among Achaemenids; the Haumavarga Scythians probably owe their name to the fact that they did not press the plant but strewed it ritually (HOFFMANN 1975).

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