داریوش

Persian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-v-u-š /⁠Dārayavaʰuš⁠/), through an older transcription. Probably first used by Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani in 1909, who first transliterated Henry Rawlinson's 1848 transcriptions of Old Persian into Arabic script rather than the Greek forms current in nineteenth-century Iran.[1] Rawlinson transliterates 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-v-u-š /⁠Dārayavaʰuš⁠/) as Dáryawush.

Pronunciation

Readings
Dari reading? dāryūš
Iranian reading? dâryuš

Proper noun

داریوش • (dāryūš / dâryuš) (Tajik spelling Дориюш)

  1. Darius
  2. a male given name, Daryush, Daryoush, or Daryoosh, from Old Persian, equivalent to English Darius

References

  1. ^ Amanat, Abbas (2012), “Legend, legitimacy, and making a national narrative in the historiography of Qajar Iran”, in Persian Historiography (A History of Persian Literature), volume 10, London: I. B. Tauris
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