خراسان
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian خراسان (xorâsân), from Classical Persian خوراسان (xwarāsān), ultimately from Middle Persian hwlʾsʾn' (xwarāsān, literally “sunrise; east”). The name of the Turkish settlement derives from the name of the Iranian region, since the first settlers of the town migrated from this area.
Proper noun
خراسان • (horasan)
- Khorasan, the name for the region of Parthia located in the north-east of Iran
- Horasan (a town and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey)
- Synonym: پاسین سفلی (pasin-i süflâ) (historical)
Descendants
- Turkish: Horasan
Noun
خراسان • (horasan) (definite accusative خراسانی (horasanı), plural خراسانلر (horasanlar))
- sifted brickdust used instead of sand for the preparation of lime mortar, together with lime, water and eggs
Derived terms
Descendants
- Turkish: horasan
- → Albanian: horasan
- → Armenian: խորասան (xorasan)
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “خراسان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 692
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “horasan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1984
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خراسان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 207a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خراسان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 534
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Chorasana”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 177
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خراسان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1873
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Horasan”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خراسان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 836
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Horasan”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 355
Persian
Alternative forms
- خوراسان (xwarāsān)
- خورآسان (xwar-āsān)
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
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /xʷa.ɾaː.ˈsaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [xʊ.ɾɑː.sɑ́ːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [xo.ɹɒː.sɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [χu.ɾɔ.sɔ́n]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | xwarāsān |
| Dari reading? | xurāsān |
| Iranian reading? | xorâsân |
| Tajik reading? | xuroson |
Proper noun
| Dari | خراسان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | Хуросон |
خراسان • (xorâsân)
- (historical) Khorasan (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.)
- 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
[knows that] "Khurasan" means "[the place] 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 former province of Iran which subsequently divided into the South Khorasan, North Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan provinces)
Derived terms
- خراسانی (xorâsâni)
- خراسان جنوبی (xorâsân-e jonubi)
- خراسان شمالی (xorâsân-e šomâli)
- خراسان رضوی (xorâsân-e razavi)
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