Scholarly Name Reference
also written Zarathushtra
Avestan name of Zarathustra (second element uštra 'camel'), the prophet of Ahura Mazdā and traditional composer of the Gāthās.
Scholarly reference for Zaraθuštra
𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀
The name in its original Avestan form. 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 → Zaraθuštra. The Avestan form 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 writes the prophet's name phonetically. · The dental fricative θ (𐬚) and the postalveolar š (𐬱) have distinct Avestan letters. · The Unicode restoration Zaraθuštra preserves θ and š in a registrable Latin form. · The Unicode restoration Zaraθuštra is registrable in .com; the Avestan script is not in the .com IDN table.
ZARATHUSHTRA
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Zaraθuštra
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
zaraθuštra.com → xn--zarautra-9wb201d.com
The non-ASCII characters in Zaraθuštra are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Zaraθuštra. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How zarathushtra becomes Zaraθuštra
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | z | → | Z | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 05 | t | → | θ | Special | Theta: Avestan voiceless dental fricative, atomic letter |
| 06 | h | → | Drop | Not written | |
| 07 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 08 | s | → | š | Special | Š: s-caron, Avestan voiceless palato-alveolar fricative, atomic letter |
| 09 | h | → | Drop | Not written | |
| 10 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 11 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 12 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Zaraθuštra is classified as Tier-1
The Zoroastrian restoration 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 preserves at least one distinctive feature its ASCII form loses — a diacritic or a distinctive letter that marks the original phonology. This makes it a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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