Khorasan

English

Alternative forms

• Khurasan

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Khorasan

1. (historical) The Sassanian and post-Islamic Persian name for the region of Parthia located in north east of Persia (Iran), sometimes covering also parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan; the Greater Khorasan.
2. A pre-2004 province of Iran which subsequently divided into the South Khorasan, North Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan provinces.

Translations

A region in Persia

• Arabic: خُرَاسَان (ḵurāsān)
• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: Խորասան (Xorasan)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼羅珊／呼罗珊, 呼罗珊 (Hūluóshān)

• Hindi: खुरासान (hi) m (khurāsān)
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• Persian: خراسان (fa) (xorâsân)
• Sanskrit: खुरासान (sa) m (khurāsāna)

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