Given name · Hindi
ख़ुसरो
“renowned, famous”
ख़ुसरो (xusro) is a masculine given name from Classical Persian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian. It is used in Hindi.
HindiWritten in Devanagari script. In English: Xusro.
Meaning & origin
What it means
ख़ुसरो goes back to Proto-Iranian *Hhucráwāh, meaning “renowned, famous.”
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Where it comes from
ख़ुसरो comes from Classical Persian, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Classical Persian خسرو (xusraw), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩 (hwslwdy), from Old Median *Husravah, from Proto-Iranian *Hhucráwāh (“renowned, famous”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsućráwās.
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ख़ुसरो’s family of names
In Hindi usage, ख़ुसरो shares an earlier linguistic root with सुश्रव. In Hindi usage, ख़ुसरो can be written in the Roman alphabet as Xusro.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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