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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 161. Not illustrated. Chapters: Cyrus, Nina, Persian Name, Roxana, Shahrokh, Afshin, Sepideh, Parviz, Kamran, Ramin, Kira, Mahnoosh, Naveed, Manuchehr, Nima, Rostam, Roshanak, Omid, Ardeshir, Bahram, Behrouz, Mani, Mehrdad, Roxanne, Homayoun, Iraj, Farhad, Nasrin, Sareh, Nika, Zita, Siavash, Suri, Inayat, Nehal, Bijan, Anjuman, Vahid, Qaisar, Irad, Negin, Nazanin, Kayvan, Dariush, Aftab, Khorshid, Saina, Aladin, Abtin, Hushang, Simin, Atusa, Shantia, Bita, Jamshid, Babak, Farzāne, Rana, Parisa, Nargess, Esfandiyār, Nelofar, Kūrosh, Sohrab, Parveen, Shahnaz, Mahkameh, Fariborz, Kambiz. Excerpt: Cyrus (pronounced ) is the given name of a number of Persian kings. Most notably it refers to Cyrus the Great. Cyrus is also the name of Cyrus I of Anshan (ca. 650 BC), King of Persia the grandfather of Cyrus the Great; and Cyrus the Younger (died 401 BC), brother to the Persian King Artaxerxes II of Persia. Cyrus, as a word in English, is derived, via Latin, from Ancient Greek: , from Old Persian: (IPA: , ). According to inscriptions the name is reflected in Elamite Kura, Babylonian Ku(r)-ra/-ra-a and Imperial Aramaic kwr Etymology of Cyrus has been and continues to be a topic of discussion amongst historians, linguists, and scholars of Iranology. The OP name "kuru" has been interpreted in various forms from "the sun," "like sun," "young," "hero" to "humiliator of the enemy in verbal contest" and the Elamite "kura" has been translated as one "who bestows care." The name has appeared on many monuments and inscriptions in old Persian. There is also the record of a small inscription in Morghab (southwestern Iran) on which there is the sentence (adam kru xyaiya haxmaniiya) in Old Persian meaning (I am Cyrus the Achaemenian King). After a questionable proposal by the German linguist F. H. Weissbach that Darius the Great was the first to inscrib...
