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Zar

A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.

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A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.

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tsarnoun	(historical) An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
czarnoun	(informal, US politics, Philippine politics) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
updatenoun	A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.
raznoun	A surname.
zaarnoun	Alternative form of zar. [A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.]
saracenismnoun	The habits or beliefs of the Saracen people.
sabaismnoun	worship of the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry; astrolatry
magismnoun	Magianism; Zoroastrianism
maraboutnoun	(Islam) A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa.
zarathustrismnoun	Archaic form of Zoroastrianism. [(common) Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion.]
karassnoun	A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.
barakahnoun	The spiritual power or wisdom that resides in holy places and people, especially in a Sufi.
maraboutismnoun	Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
zoroastrismnoun	Dated form of Zoroastrianism. [(common) Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion.]
tariqahnoun	Alternative form of tariqa. [(Islam) A religious order of Sufism, formed around a murshid.]
ziraleetnoun	(archaic) A joyful chant uttered by a group of women in Muslim countries.
zarvanismnoun	Alternative form of Zurvanism. [(Zoroastrianism, historical) A now-extinct branch of Zoroastrianism that had the divinity Zurvan as its primordial creator deity.]
zarathustriannoun	(uncommon) Relating to or characteristic of Zarathustrianism (also known as Zoroastrianism).
magusnoun	(Zoroastrianism) A Zoroastrian priest.
sarazinnoun	Obsolete form of Saracen. [A member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE, who were specifically distinct from Arabs.]