Afshin Mofid
Afshin ( fa, wikt:افشین, افشین / ''Afšīn'') is a common Persian language, Persian given name, which is a modern Persian language, Persian word derived from Avestan. Afshin was used by the Sogdians. Historically, it was the princely title of the rulers of Osrushana at the time of the Muslim conquest. The Afshins of Osrushana were an Iranian peoples, Iranian principality in Central Asia of whom the later Abbasid general Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin is the most famous. Etymology ''Afšīn'' is the Arabization, Arabicized form of the Middle Persian ''Pišīn'', which traces back to the Avestan language, Avestan ''Pisinah''. In Persian mythology, pre-Islamic Iranian tradition, it is the name of a grandson of Kayanian dynasty, Kayānid king Kai Kobad, Kavād (Yasht, Yt. 13.132, 19.71). In the Islamic period, it is found as a proper name attested by Armenians, Armenian historians in the form ''Ōšin'' (from ''Awšin'').
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Anglicization
Anglicisation is the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by Culture of England, English culture or Culture of the United Kingdom, British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English. It can also refer to the influence of English culture and business on other countries outside England or the United Kingdom, including their media, cuisine, popular culture, technology, business practices, laws, or political systems. Linguistic anglicisation is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand in English language, English. The term commonly refers to the respelling of foreign words, often to a more drastic degree than that implied in, for example, Romanization, romanisation. One instance is the word "dandelion", modified from the French ''dent-de-lion'' ("lion's tooth", a reference to the plant's sharply indented leaves). The term can also re ...
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