Rostam (first name)
Rostam ( Persian رستم Rostam [ rosˈtam ], also Rustam ) is a masculine Iranian given name.
It is probably a Zoroastrian name , which means it is neither Islamic nor Arabic. The exact origin of the name is not clear, but the name occurs in the Shāhnāme and was thus known in the Persian Empire . See Rostam (Shāhnāme) .
The meaning of the name is controversial. The translation of the Book of Kings by Helen Zimmer explains that the name came from an exclamation by Rostam's mother Rudabeh after the painful birth and that she called him I am freed (from the pains of childbirth ).
Today the name is no longer used very often. Part of the reason for this is that, since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Iranian population has given children more Islamic names than old Persian ones.
In other languages
- Armenian : Ռոստոմ ( Rostom )
- Azeri : Rustam
- Georgian : როსტომ ( Rostom )
- Kazakh : Рустам ( Rustam )
- Kurdish : روستەم ( Rustem )
- Russian : Рустам ( Rustam, Rustem )
- Tajik : Рустам ( Rustam )
- Turkish : Rustem
- Ukrainian : Рустам ( Rustam )
- Uzbek Rustam
Name bearer
- Rostam Farrochzād († 636), general in the Sassanid Empire
- Rustem Pasha (around 1500–1561), Ottoman grand vizier
- Rostam Yaxin (1921–1993), Tatar composer
- Rustam Effendi (1903–1979), Indonesian poet, playwright and politician
- Rustam Kasimjanov (* 1979), Uzbek chess grandmaster
- Rustam Nurgalijewitsch Minnichanow (* 1957), Russian politician and motor sportsman, President of the Republic of Tatarstan
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ayvazian-Terzian, Maria: Persian Proper Names: Compiling a Glossary for Practical Use in Persian (A Brief Report), Iran & the Caucasus, Vol. 3, (1999 - 2000), pp. 413-414, BRILL, available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4030806
See also
Web links
- Name Lexikon (English)