ارغوان

• (from Arabic) ارجوان‎ (arjavân, orjovân)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlgwkʾn' /argawān/, “purple”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒋠𒍝𒆳𒋛𒀀 (argawannu, “red purple”), probably via Aramaic, cf. Classical Syriac ܐܪܓܘܢܐ‎ (ʾargəwānā). A Wanderwort in the Middle East: Biblical Hebrew אַרְגְּוָן‎ (ʾargɔmɔn, “purple”), Arabic أَرْجُوَان‎ (ʔarjuwān, “purple; redbud; amethyst”).

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Judas tree

ارغوان or ارغوان • (arğavân or arğovân)

1. purple color; dark magenta color
2. Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum) or its flower
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 14”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:

     ‏می‌نماید عکسِ مِی، در رنگِ رویِ مه وشت
     همچو برگِ ارغوان بر صفحهٔ نسرین، غریب‎

     mê-namâyad aks-i may, dar rang-e rôy-i mah waš-at
     hamčô barg-i arğawân bar safha-yi nasrîn, ğarîb

     The wine's reflection shows in the color of your moon-like face
     Like a Judas tree petal on the face of a wild rose: how strange!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

ارغوان • (arğavân)

1. a female given name, Arghavan or Arghawan, from Middle Persian

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “ارغوان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “argawān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (2000), “aragamannu”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
• Itamar Singer, "Purple-Dyers in Lazpa", Tel Aviv University