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BC, when / became the only variant of the name in use.

This name meant "armed with throwing darts and arrows" and is cognate with the Indic Sanskrit term , which makes it semantically similar to the endonym of the Scythians, , meaning "archers."

The later, Middle Iranic, form of was or , of which the later form, or , was recorded in ancient Greek as (Gr}}; ).

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