خسرو

From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩 (hwslwdy /⁠Husrōy⁠/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (hwslwb' /⁠Husrav⁠/), from Old Median *Husravah, from Proto-Iranian *Hhucráwāh (“renowned, famous”).

خسرو • (xusraw / xosrow) (Tajik spelling Хусрав)

1. a male given name, Khosrow, Khusro, Khosrau, Khusrau, Khosro, Khusraw, Chosroes, or Osroes, from Middle Persian

خسرو • (xusraw / xosrow) (plural خسروان (xusrawān / xosrowân), or خسروها (xusraw-hā / xosrow-hâ), Tajik spelling хусрав)

1. (great) king
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3026:

     گرگ و روبه را طمع بود اندر آن / که رود قسمت به عدل خسروان

     gurg u rôbah râ tama' bud andar ân / ki rawad qismat ba 'adl-i-xusrawân

     The wolf and fox hoped that a division (of the prey) would be made according to the justice of emperors.

• → Arabic: كِسْرَى (kisrā), كَسْرَى (kasrā)^[1]
  • Andalusian Arabic: كِسْرَى (kisrā)^[1]
  • → Iranian Persian: کسری (kasrâ)
• → Azerbaijani: Xosrov
• → Bengali: খসরু (khośru)
• → English: Khosrow
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़ुसरो (xusro)

  Urdu: خُسْرَو (xusrau)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ੁਸਰੋ (xusro)

  Shahmukhi script: خُسْرو (xusro)

• → Ottoman Turkish: خسرو (Hüsrev)
  • Turkish: Hüsrev

• Khosrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Prods Oktor Skjærvø, "KAYĀNIĀN vii. Kauui Haosrauuah, Kay Husrōy, Kay Ḵosrow", Encyclopædia Iranica, May 15, 2013
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1942–1962), “Խոսրով”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “خسرو”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim