خورشید

Persian

Alternative forms
  • هورشید (horšid), خرشید (xuršēd), خرشد (xuršid)

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭥𐭫(𐭧)𐭱𐭩𐭲 (xwar(x)šēd, “sun”), from Proto-Iranian *huHarxšaytah. Compare Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆-𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀- (huuarə-xšaēta-, “bright sun (an epithet)”).

The first part is cognate with خراسان (xorâsân), the name of a province in eastern Iran (since the sun rises in the east), and the second part (equivalent to شید (“bright”) in modern Persian) with Old Armenian աշխէտ (ašxēt).[1]

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [xʊɾ.ʃiːd̪], [xʊɾ.ʃeːd̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [xʊɾ.ʃiːd̪], [xʊɾ.ʃeːd̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [xuɾ.ʃid̪̥], [xuɾ.ʃeːd̪̥]

Readings
Classical reading? xwaršēḏ
Dari reading? xuršīd, xuršēd
Iranian reading? xoršid
Tajik reading? xuršed

Noun
Dari خورشید
Iranian Persian
Tajik хуршед

خورشید • (xoršid)

  1. the sun
  2. sunshine

Derived terms

Descendants

Proper noun
Dari خورشید
Iranian Persian
Tajik Хуршед

خورشید • (xoršid)

  1. a unisex given name, Khorshid

See also

References
  1. Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, pages 249, 402
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خرشید”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 676b
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خرشید”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 749a

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian خورشید (xuršed~xʷaɾšed).

Noun

خورشید • (xurśed, xvarśed) m (Hindi spelling ख़्वुरशेद)

  1. (astronomy) sun
    Synonyms: سورج (sūraj), سوریہ (sūrya), روی (ravī)
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