Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
Phiroze Phiroze is a male Indian Parsi name derived from middle Persian Pērōz (meaning victorious, triumphant or prosperous). The spelling of the name has many variations such as Pheroz, Pheroze, Phiroz, etc. but their pronunciation is the same.
People n ...
), Fayrouz ( ar, فيروز), Phiroj, are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from
Middle Persian
Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle Per ...
Pērōz (
Inscriptional Pahlavi
Inscriptional Pahlavi is the earliest attested form of Pahlavi scripts, and is evident in clay fragments that have been dated to the reign of Mithridates I (''r.'' 171–138 BC). Other early evidence includes the Pahlavi inscriptions of Arsacid ...
: ,
Book Pahlavi
Pahlavi is a particular, exclusively written form of various Iranian languages, Middle Iranian languages. The essential characteristics of Pahlavi are:
*the use of a specific Aramaic script, Aramaic-derived script;
*the incidence of Aramaic lang ...
: ), meaning "victorious, triumphant or prosperous",MAcKENZIE, D. (n.d.). A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (p. 68). Oxford University Press. mentioned as Perozes () in
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
and
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
sources.
Notable persons with the name include:
People
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Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz
Abū Luʾluʾa Fīrūz ( ar, أبو لؤلؤة فيروز; from ), also known as Bābā Shujāʿ al-Dīn ( ar, بابا شجاع الدين, label=none), was a Sassanid Persian slave known for having assassinated Umar ibn al-Khattab (), the se ...
(d. 644), Persian slave who killed the second caliph Umar
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Feroze Gandhi
Feroze Gandhi (born Feroze Jehangir Ghandy;: "Feroze Gandhi was also from the Nehrus' home town, Allahabad. A Parsi by faith, he at first spelt his surname 'Ghandy'. However, after he joined the national movement as a young man, he changed th ...
, an Indian politician and journalist
* Firoz Khan, known as Arjun, Indian actor
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Feroz Khan Feroz Khan or Feroze Khan may refer to:
* Feroz Khan (actor) (1939–2009), Indian actor and film director
* Feroz Khan Noon (1893–1970), Pakistani politician and 8th Prime Minister of Pakistan
* Feroze Khan (born 1990), Pakistani VJ, television ...
, an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director
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Feroze Khan (field hockey)
Feroze Khan (9 September 1904 – 21 April 2005) was a field hockey player who represented India at the Summer Olympic Games. At the time of his death, he was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of U.S. athlete ...
, a field hockey player who represented British India in the Olympics
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Feroz Abbasi
Feroz Abbasi is one of nine British men who were held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. He was repatriated in 2005 and released by the British government the next day. He was released from det ...
, a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
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Feroz Khan Noon
Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon, ( ur, ملک فیروز خان نون; 7 May 18939 December 1970), best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Pakistan from 1957 until being removed wh ...
, a politician from Pakistan
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Feroz Abbas Khan
Feroz Abbas Khan is an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, who is most known for directing plays like Mughal-e-Azam, ''Saalgirah'', ''Tumhari Amrita'' (1992), ''Salesman Ramlal'' and ''Gandhi Viruddh Gandhi''.
Car ...
, an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter
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Firouz
Firouz was a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam and armor maker who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government during the Crusades. Notably, he also served as a spy for Bohemond during the Siege of Antioch. Bohemond h ...
– a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government.
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Firuz Shah Tughlaq
Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 20 September 1388) was a Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.
(r. 1351–1388 CE), a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India
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Firuz Kanatlı
Firuz Kanatlı (1932 – 18 October 2017) was a Turkish businessman and founder and honorary president of the well known company Eti.
He was born in Eskişehir, Turkey in 1932. He attended primary school until the third school year, after which ...
Firuz Kazemzadeh
Firuz Kazemzadeh ( fa, فیروز کاظمزاده; October 27, 1924 – May 17, 2017) was a Russian-born American historian who was professor emeritus of history at Yale University.
Biography
Firuz Kazemzadeh was born in Moscow to an Iranian f ...
, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University
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Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah ( fa, فیروزشاه زرین کلاه, lit=King Firuz of the Golden Crown) was a Kurdish dignitary,F. Daftary, "Intellectual Traditions in Islam", I.B.Tauris, 2001. pg 147: "But the origins of the family of Shaykh Safi al- ...
, an Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin
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Peroz I
Peroz I ( pal, 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, Pērōz) was the Sasanian King of Kings () of Iran from 459 to 484. A son of Yazdegerd II (), he disputed the rule of his elder brother and incumbent king Hormizd III (), eventually seizing the throne after a ...
, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled 457–484
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Peroz II
Peroz II ( pal, 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, fa, پیروز دوم), also known as Gushnasp-Bandeh was king of Persia. He was son of Mah-Adhur Gushnasp and Kahar-dukht, who was daughter of Yazdandad son of Khosrau I. Peroz II reigned only for a short tim ...
, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled Oct. to Dec. 631 AD
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Piruz Khosrow Piruz Khosrow (Middle Persian: ''Pērōz Khusraw''), also known as Piruzan or Firuzan, was a powerful Persian aristocrat who was the leader of the ''Parsig'' (Persian) faction that controlled much of the affairs of the Sasanian Empire during the S ...
, Persian aristocrat who murdered Queen Boran
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Peroz III
Peroz III ( pal, 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰 ''Pērōz''; ) was son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian King of Kings of Iran. After the death of his father, who legend says was killed by a miller at the instigation of the governor of Marw, he retreated ...
, exiled Persian prince who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor
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Peruz Terzekyan
Peruz (1866 in SivasM. Nihat Özön, Baha Dürder (ed.), ''Türk Tiyatrosu Ansiklopedisi'', Yükselen Matbaası, 1967, p. 345. – c. 1920 in Istanbul) also known as Peruz Hanım or Kantocu Peruz, Yılmaz Öztuna, ''Türk Musikisi Ansiklopedisi'', ...
, b.
Sivas
Sivas (Latin and Greek: ''Sebastia'', ''Sebastea'', Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή, ) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province.
The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, is a ...
1866, a
kanto
Kantō (Japanese)
Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics.
In Japan
Kantō may refer to:
*Kantō Plain
*Kantō region
*Kantō-kai, organized crime group
*Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ' ...
singer
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Pirouz Davani
Pirouz Davani (1961–1998~) ( fa, پیروز دوانی) is, or was, an Iranian leftist activist and Editor-in-chief, editor of the ''Pirouz'' (Persian language, Persian: ''"Victorious"'') newspaper. He disappeared on 28 August 1998 while leaving ...
, an Iranian leftist activist
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Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh (born 9 February 1946) is an Iranian political scientist and historian.
He is a prominent Iranologist, geopolitics researcher, historian and political scientist. He teaches geopolitics at the Tarbiat Modares University of Tehr ...
, an Iranian political scientist and historian
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Farooq Feroze Khan
Air Chief Marshal Farooq Feroze Khan ( ur, ; born: 17 August 1939 – 9 October 2021), best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani military officer who served as the 6th four-star air officer in the Pakistan Air Force and also served as the ...
, a Pakistan Air Force officer
* Jam Feroz, the last ruler of the Samma dynasty of Sindh
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Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji
Jalal-ud-din Khalji, also known as Firuz-Al-Din Khalji or Jalaluddin Khilji (c. 1220 – 19 July 1296, ) ( fa, جلالالدین خلجی) was the founder and first Sultan of the Khalji dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1290 to 132 ...
, the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty
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Alauddin Firuz Shah I
Alauddin Firuz Shah I ( bn, প্রথম আলাউদ্দিন ফিরোজ শাহ) was the son and successor of Sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah of Bengal. He was a sultan only in name; the effective powers being wielded by Raja Gan ...
, the son and successor of sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah
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Alauddin Firuz Shah II
ʿAlā ad-Dīn Fīrūz Shāh ( bn, আলাউদ্দীন ফিরোজ শাহ, fa, ) was the son and successor of Sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah of Bengal. He served as a governor of Chittagong during his father's reign, and was a pa ...
, the son and successor of sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah
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Rukn ud din Firuz
Rukn-ud-din Firuz ( fa, رکنالدین فیروز), also transliterated as Rukn al-Din Firoz (died 19 November 1236), was a ruler of Delhi sultanate for less than seven months in 1236. As a prince, he had administered the Badaun and Lahore ...
, a Muslim Turkic ruler and the fourth Sultan of Delhi in medieval India
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Fairuz
Nouhad Wadie' Haddad ( ar, نهاد وديع حداد, ; born November 21, 1934), known as Fairuz ( ar, فيروز, ; also spelled Fairouz, Feyrouz or Fayrouz), is a Lebanese singer. She is considered by many as one of the leading vocalists a ...
, a Lebanese singer
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Pherozeshah Mehta
Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta (4 August 1845 – 5 November 1915) was an Indian politician and lawyer from Bombay. He was knighted by the British Government in India for his service to the law. He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay ...
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Shamsuddin Firoz Shah
Shamsuddin Firuz Shah ( fa, شمس الدين فيروز شاه, bn, শামসুদ্দীন ফিরুজ শাহ, ''Shams Ad-Dīn Firūz Shāh'') (reigned: 1301–1322) was the independent ruler of the Gauḍa (city), Lakhnauti Ki ...
, Sultan of
Bengal
Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...
from 1301 to 1322
Characters
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Hajji Firuz
Hāji Firuz ('' fa, حاجی فیروز'') or Khwāje Piruz ('' fa, خواجه پیروز'') is a fictional character in Iranian folklore who appears in the streets by the beginning of Nowruz. His face is covered in soot, and he is clad in brigh ...
Piruz, Iran
Piruz ( fa, پيروز, also Romanized as Pīrūz; also known as Fārī and Parī) is a village in Kamazan-e Vosta Rural District, Zand District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,157, in 310 families ...