Majūs (Arabic and Persian: مجوس, pl. of majūsī) was originally a term meaning Zoroastrians (and specifically, Zoroastrian priests). It was a technical term, meaning magus, p. http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/contextualize.pl?p.6.steingass.201629 1179.See also: http://www.google.com/search?as_sitesearch=jstor.org&as_q=majus+magi&hl=en references to Majus/Magi in academic publications and like its synonym gabr (of uncertain etymology) originally had no pejorative implications.