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Khurasan

Khurasan 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 Khurasan

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

Words near Khurasan in the dictionary

  1. Khuraijam
  2. khural
  3. khurals
  4. Khurana
  5. Khuranas
  6. Khurasan
  7. khureef
  8. Khuriya Muriya
  9. Khurkhul
  10. khurli
  11. khurlis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Khurasan (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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