خراسان
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Persian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From earlier خوراسان (xwarāsān), from Middle Persian hwlʾsʾn' (xwarāsān, literally “sunrise; east”). Equivalent to خور (xwar, “sun”) + آسان (âsân, “coming”). آسان (âsân) is the Parthian conjugation of a verb meaning “to come, to rise”. For the first part, compare خورشید (xoršid), for the second part compare Baluchi آسگ (ásag, “to rise”).
Pronunciation
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- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | xwarāsān |
| Dari reading? | xurāsān |
| Iranian reading? | xorâsân |
| Tajik reading? | xuroson |
Proper noun
| Dari | خراسان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | Хуросон |
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- zabân-i pahlavî har kû šinâsad
"xorâsân" ya'nî "ânjâ kû xwar âsad"
"xorâsân" râ buvad ma'nî "xwar âyân ...
... kujâ az vay xwar âyad sôy-i êrân - Anyone who knows the Parthian language
"Khurasan" means " from which the sun comes"
“Khorasan” means the coming sun ...
... from where the sun comes toward Persia
- zabân-i pahlavî har kû šinâsad
- 11th century, Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, Vis and Rāmin
- Khorasan (a region in Iran now divided in three provinces)
Derived terms
- خراسانی (xorâsâni)
Descendants
- → Greek: κουρασάνι (kourasáni, “Khorasani style lime mortar”)
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
- Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 7