خراسان

Persian

Alternative forms

• خوراسان (xwarâsân) (archaic)

Etymology

From earlier خوراسان (xwarâsân), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian hwlʾsʾn' (xwarāsān, literally “sunrise; east”).

Proper noun

خراسان • (xorâsân)

1. 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

2. 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