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Afshin
افشین
GenderMale
Language(s)Middle Persian
Origin
Word/nameMiddle Persian
Other names
Variant form(s)Afšīn, Afšin, Afşin/Afşın, Afshiin, Afsheen[a]
Coin in the name of Rakhanch, Sogdian Afshin of the Principality of Ushrusana. Tamgha symbol on the reverse with title and name of the ruler. Excavated in the Palace of Kala-i Kakhkakha I, Bunjikat. 7th century CE, National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan (RTL 213).[1]

Afshin (Template:Lang-fa / Afšīn) is a common Persian given name, which is a modern Persian word derived from Avestan. Afshin was used by the Sogdians.[2] Historically, it was the princely title of the rulers of Osrushana before the Muslim conquest. The Afshins of Osrushana were a Persian principality in Central Asia.

Etymology

Afšīn is form of the Middle Persian Pišīn, which traces back to the Avestan Pisinah. In pre-Islamic Iranian tradition, it is the name of a grandson of Kayānid king Kavād (Yt. 13.132, 19.71) found as a proper name attested by Armenian historians in the form Ōšin (from Awšin).[3]

People

Given name
Surname

Places

  • Afşin, a town in the Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey
  • Avshen, a village in the Alagyaz Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Anglicization of original name.

References

  1. ^ Kurbanov, Sharofiddin (2021). Tadjikistan : au pays des fleuves d'or. Paris, Gand: Musée Guimet, Editions Snoeck. p. 152. ISBN 978-9461616272.
  2. ^ Mehrdad Kia (27 June 2016). The Persian Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-1-61069-391-2.
  3. ^ AFŠĪN in Encyclopedia Iranica. C.E. Bosworth. Online edition. 2010.