گوسان

• کوسان‎ (kôsân)

The correct spelling is گوسان (gôsân), either inherited from Middle Persian *gōsān or borrowed from Parthian 𐫃𐫇𐫘𐫀𐫗‎ (gwsʾn /gōsān/); see there for more.

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡuːˈsɒːn], [ɡuːˈsɒn]
• (Dari) IPA^(key): [ɡoːˈsɒːn], [ɡoːˈsɒn]
• (Tajik) IPA^(key): [ɡɵːˈsɔn]

گوسان • (gôsân) (plural گوسانان‎ (gôsânân) or گوسان‌ها‎ (gôsân-hâ))

1. gusan
   • 11th c., Fakhruddīn As'ad Gurgānī, "بزم ساختن موبد در باغ و سرود گفتن رامشگر گوسان", Wīs and Rāmīn, 218.5

     ‏سرودی گفت گوسانِ نوآیین
     درو پوشید حالِ ویس و رامین‎

     sarōδ-ē guft gōsān-i naw-āyīn
     dar ō pōšīδ hāl-i Wīs u Rāmīn

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. minstrel

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “کوسان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• von Stackelberg, R. (1894), “Lexicalisches aus ‘Wīs ō Rāmīn’”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 48, pages 490–497
• Asatrjan, G. S. (2013), “Parfjanskoje gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in Toxtasʹjev S. R., Lurʹje P. B., editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Sbornik statej k 90-letiju Vladimira Aronoviča Livšica‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija, →ISBN
• Bailey, H. W. (1934), “Iranica (II)”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society‎, issue 3, page 514f