Khorasan

English

the flag of the Khorasan

1926 map showing Muslim conquests till AD 750

Alternative forms

• Khorassan, Khurasan

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian Persian خراسان (xorâsân), from Classical Persian خوراسان (xwarāsān), from Middle Persian hwlʾsʾn' (xwarāsān, literally “sunrise; east”).

Proper noun

Khorasan

1. (historical) 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.
2. A pre-2004 province of Iran which subsequently divided into the South Khorasan, North Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan provinces.
3. (proscribed) Ellipsis of Daesh-Khorasan (“IS/ISIL/ISIS affiliate”).

Derived terms

• Daesh-Khorasan
• ISIL-K
• ISIS-K
• IS-K
• Khorasan wheat
• North Khorasan
• South Khorasan

 

Translations

A region in Persia

• Arabic: خُرَاسَان (ḵurāsān)
• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: Խորասան (Xorasan)

• Bengali: খোরাসান (khōraśan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼羅珊／呼罗珊 (Hūluóshān)

• Dutch: Khorasan m
• Finnish: Khorasan
• French: Khorassan (fr) m, Khorasan (fr) m
• Georgian: ხორასანი (xorasani)
• German: Chorasan, Chorassan
• Hindi: खुरासान (hi) m (khurāsān)
• Hungarian: Horászán
• Indonesian: Khorasan
• Kazakh: Хорасан (Xorasan)
• Korean: 호라산 (horasan)
• Malayalam: ഖുറാസാൻ (khuṟāsāṉ)
• Ottoman Turkish: خراسان (Horasan)
• Persian: خراسان (fa) (xorâsân)
• Polish: Chorasan (pl) m
• Russian: Хораса́н (ru) m (Xorasán)
• Sanskrit: खुरासान (sa) m (khurāsāna)
• Tajik: Хуросон (Xuroson)
• Tamil: குராசான் (kurācāṉ)
• Uyghur: خۇراسان (xurasan)

Anagrams

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