Fereshteh/ Fereshtah (also
transliterated as Freshteh or Ferishteh or Freshta, fa, فرشته ''fereshteh'' / ''fereshtah'' ) is a feminine given name of Persian origin meaning
angel,
one of the most popular names in the Persian-speaking world.
The etymology of the word is traced to
Sanskrit preṣyatā प्रेष्यता and
Avestan
Avestan (), or historically Zend, is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages: Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BCE). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scrip ...
fraēšta-, messenger which led to Persian فرشته • ferešte.
For phonological reasons, it is usually transcribed as Fereshtah or Freshta in the Persian spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Brief history of Fereshteh street
In the early 1320s (1940 AD), Mr Mohammad Ali Masoudi, a journalist, publisher, member of parliament (Majles) and finally a senator in the Iranian Senate, Mr Masoudi built a summer house with a large garden on a dirt road named Doctor Namdar, which was off ValiAsr (Pahlavi) and went by the name of Doctor Namdar.
Mr. Masoudi had two daughters, Maryam and Fereshteh and he changed part of the street name to Fereshteh and after the revolution the remainder of Doctor Namdar street was changed to Koohyar.
People
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Firishta (1560-1620), (male) Persian historian
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Fereshteh Jenabi
Fereshteh Jenabi Namin ( fa, فرشته جنابی, born 1948 – ) was an Iranian actress mostly active before the Iranian revolution from 1971 until 1979. She was banned from acting after the revolution and had drug addiction issues. She died ...
(1948-1998), Iranian actress
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Fereshta Kazemi
Fereshta Kazemi is an Afghan–born American film actress.
Early life
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Kazemi moved to the U.S. with her family. She was raised in New York and the California Bay Area. After high school, Kazemi won an acting and acad ...
(born 1979), Afghan–American film actress
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Fereshteh Ghazi
Fereshteh Ghazi is an Iranian journalist and human rights activist.
In 2004 she worked for the newspaper Etemad. She is well known for the coverage of Zahra Kazemi's murder in Evin prison. She was herself arrested and imprisoned on two occasions ...
, Iranian journalist
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Fereshteh Molavi
Fereshteh Molavi ( fa, فرشته مولوی) (born 19 September 1953, Tehran) is an Iranian-Canadian fiction writer and essayist. She is also a renowned scholar and translator.
Biography
Born in Tehran a month after the coup in 1953, she was rai ...
(born 1953), Iranian-Canadian fiction writer and essayist
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Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee (born 1962), Iranian actress
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Fereshteh Taerpour (born 1953), Iranian film producer
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Fereshteh Forough
Fereshteh Forough (born 1985) is an Afghan social activist and is the CEO and founder of Code to Inspire (CTI), the first coding school for girls in Afghanistan. She is also an advocate for gender equality and the empowerment of women in developin ...
Afghan computer scientist
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Freshta Kohistani
Freshta Kohistani (1991 – 24 December 2020) was an Afghan Tajik woman's rights activist and a pro-democracy advocate who was assassinated at the age of 29.
Kohistani frequently organised events in the capital, Kabul, advocating women's ri ...
, Afghan rights activist
Places
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Fereshteh Jan
Fereshteh Jan ( fa, فرشته جان, also Romanized as Fereshteh Jān; also known as Fereshtehjūn and Fereshteh Khān) is a village in Juyom Rural District, Juyom District, Larestan County, Fars Province, Iran
Iran, officially the ...
, village in Juyom Rural District, Juyom District, Larestan County, Fars Province, Iran
Film
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Farishta (1958 film)
Notes
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Persian feminine given names