خراسان

• خوراسان‎ (xwarâsân) (archaic)

From earlier خوراسان‎ (xwarâsân), from Middle Persian hwlʾsʾn' (xwarāsān, literally “sunrise; east”).

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [xoɾɒːˈsɒ(ː)n]

خراسان • (xorâsân)

1. Khorasan, Greater Khorasan
   • 11th century, Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, Vis and Rāmin

     ‏زبان پهلوی هر کو شناسد
     خراسان یعنی آنجا کو خور آسد
     خراسان را بود معنی خور آیان
     کجا از وی خور آید سوی ایران‎

     zabān-i Pahlawī har kū šināsad
     "Xorāsān" ya'nī "ānjā kū xwar āsad"
     "Xorāsān" rā buwad ma'nī "xwar āyān ...
     ... kujā az way xwar āyad sōy-i Ērān

     Anyone who knows Pahlavi language
     [knows that] "Khurasan" means "[the place] where sun rests(?)"
     The meaning of "Khorasan" is sun comes(?) ...
     ... from where sunlight comes toward Persia

2. Khorasan, a province of Iran

• خراسانی‎ (xorâsâni)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “خراسان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xwarāsān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95