Afshin

Afshin (Persian: افشین / 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 at the time of the Muslim conquest.[3] The Afshins of Osrushana were an Iranian principality in Central Asia of whom the later Abbasid general Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin is the most famous.

Afshin
افشین
GenderMale
Language(s)Middle Persian
Origin
Word/nameMiddle Persian
Other names
Variant form(s)Afšīn, Afšin, Afşin/Afşın, Afshiin, Afsheen[lower-alpha 1]
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]

Etymology

Afšīn is the Arabicized 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). In the Islamic period, it is found as a proper name attested by Armenian historians in the form Ōšin (from Awšin).[4]

People

Historical
Given name
Surname

Places

  • Afşin, a town in the Kahramanmaraş Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey

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. "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".
  4. AFŠĪN in Encyclopedia Iranica. C.E. Bosworth. Online edition. 2010.
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