High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Airyan?m Va?jah, which approximately means "expanse of the Aryans," is a reference in the Zoroastrian Avesta (Vendidad, Farg. 1) to one of Ahura Mazda's "sixteen perfect lands." It is considered the best of places, but on the other hand the V?d?vd?d 1 claims that there are two months of summer there and ten of winter, and it suffers from flooding at the end of winter. In the Avestan language, airyan?m va?jah is formed from the plural genitive case of airya and the word va?jah (whose oft-used nominative case is va?j?). The meaning of va?jah is uncertain. It may be related to the Vedic vej/vij, suggesting the region of a fast-flowing river. It has also been interpreted by some as "seed" or "germ". Avestan airya is etymologically related to the Old Persian ariya. The term generated the Middle Persian term ?r?nw?z (which occurs during the rule of the Sassanian emperor Ardashir I), and the Persian term Iran-vez (forming the modern name of Iran). It also occurs in a Sogdian phrase based on the Avesta.

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