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Khorassan

Khorassan is the alternative form of Khorasan.

Meaning of Khorasan

Proper noun

Khorasan

  1. (historical) The Sassanian and post-Islamic Persian name for the region of Parthia located in north east of Persia (Iran), sometimes covering also parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan; the Greater Khorasan.
  2. A former province of Iran which subsequently divided into the South Khorasan, North Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan provinces.

Questions about Khorassan

What is Khorassan the alternative form of?
Khorassan is the alternative form of Khorasan.

Words near Khorassan in the dictionary

  1. Khorasani
  2. Khorasani Turkic
  3. Khorasani Turkish
  4. Khorasani Turks
  5. Khorasmian
  6. Khorassan
  7. Khorat
  8. Khorazm
  9. Khorchin
  10. Khordad
  11. Khordha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Khorassan (page history and authors); Khorasan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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