The Origin of the Name Iskandar (Alexander the Great) According to the Šāhnāma

Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literature

1 - Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, Yerevan

Received: 2024-02-25 Accepted : 2024-03-17 Published : 2024-02-20

Keywords: Allium, Proper Names, Alexander the Great (Iskandar), in &Scaron, āhnāma, &Scaron,

Abstract :

According to the “story of Alexander’s birth” in the Šāhnāma, the name of Alexander the Great (Iskandar) is derived from the name of a medical herb, which was used to heal the bad smell from the mouth of his mother, Nāhīd. The paper is an attempt to explain the reason for such strange naming..

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