خراسان
Persian
Alternative forms
- خوراسان (xwarâsân) (archaic)
Etymology
From earlier خوراسان (xwarâsân), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian hwlʾsʾn' (xwarāsān, literally “sunrise; east”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
خراسان • (xorâsân)
- Khorasan, Greater Khorasan
- 11th century, Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, Vis and Rāmin
- زبان پهلوی هر کو شناسد
خراسان یعنی آنجا کو خور آسد
خراسان را بود معنی خور آیان
کجا از وی خور آید سوی ایران- zabān-i Pahlawī har kū šināsad
"Xorāsān" ya'nī "ānjā kū xwar āsad"
"Xorāsān" rā buwad ma'nī "xwar āyān ...
... kujā az way xwar āyad sōy-i Ērān - Anyone who knows Pahlavi language
[knows that] "Khurasan" means "[the place] where sun rests(?)"
The meaning of "Khorasan" is sun comes(?) ...
... from where sunlight comes toward Persia
- zabān-i Pahlawī har kū šināsad
- 11th century, Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, Vis and Rāmin
- Khorasan, a province of Iran
Derived terms
- خراسانی (xorâsâni)
References
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “خوراسان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xwarāsān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95