گوسان

Persian

Alternative forms
  • کوسان‎ (kôsân)

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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      ‎
      sarôz-ê guft gôsân-i naw-âyîn
      dar ô pôšîz hâl-i vîs u râmîn
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. minstrel

References
  • Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “کوسان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
  • Stackelberg, R. von (1894), “Lexicalisches aus ‘Wīs ō Rāmīn’”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 48, pages 490–497
  • Асатрян, Г. С. (2013), “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, pages 102–105
  • Bailey, H. W. (1934), “Iranica (II)”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society‎, issue 3, page 514f
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