رخشان

From Sogdian [script needed] (rwxšn /⁠roxšan⁠/, “bright”), from Proto-Iranian *ráwxšnaH, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh (“moon”). Doublet of روشن (rowšan), which was inherited.

رخشان • (raxšân)

1. (archaic) bright; luminous

   Synonyms: روشن (rowšan), تابان (tâbân), درخشان (deraxšân)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 12”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:

     بخت خواب آلود ما بیدار خواهد شد مگر
     زان که زد بر دیده آبی، روی رخشان شما

     baxt-i xwâb âlûd-i mâ bêdâr xwâhad šud magar
     z-ân ki zad bar dîda âbê, rôy-i raxšân-i šumâ

     This slumber-stained fate of mine shall perhaps wake up,
     For that shining face of yours has shed some water on my eyes.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

رخشان • (raxšân)

1. a female given name, Rakhshan

• → Urdu: رخشان (raxśān)

From Classical Persian رخشان (raxšān, “bright; luminous”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾəx.ʃɑːn/
• Hyphenation: رَخ‧شان

رخشان • (raxśān)

1. bright; luminous; brilliant

• رخشانی (raxśānī)

• “رخشان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “رخشان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “رخشان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “رخشان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.