Feroze

'''Firouz''' ({{langx|fa|فیروز}}; also spelled '''Farooz, Firuz''', '''Pirooz''', '''Firoz'''), '''Pirouz''' ({{langx|fa|پیروز}}, also spelled '''Pirooz''', [[Piruz (disambiguation)|Piruz]], '''Piroz'''), [[Feroz]] ([[Hindi]]/[[Urdu]]; also spelled '''Feroze''', [[Phiroze]]), '''Fayrouz''' ({{langx|ar|فيروز}}) and '''Phiroj''' are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from [[Middle Persian]] '''Pērōz''' ([[Inscriptional Pahlavi]]: {{lang|pal|𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰}}, [[Book Pahlavi]]: [[Image:PiruzPahlavi.png|45px|pyrwc]]), meaning "victorious, triumphant or prosperous",<ref>MAcKENZIE, D. (n.d.). A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (p. 68). Oxford University Press.</ref> mentioned as '''Perozes''' ({{lang|grc|Περόζης}}) in [[Latin]] and [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] sources.

Notable figures with the name include:

==People== * [[Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz]], also known as Firuz Nahavandi, Persian slave who killed the second caliph Umar * [[Feroze Gandhi]], an Indian politician and journalist * Firoz Khan, known as [[Arjun (Firoz Khan)|Arjun]], Indian actor * [[Feroz Khan (actor, born 1939)|Feroz Khan]], an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director * [[Feroze Khan (field hockey)]], a field hockey player who represented British India in the Olympics * [[Feroz Abbasi]], a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba * [[Feroz Khan Noon]], a politician from Pakistan * [[Feroz Abbas Khan]], an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter * [[Firoze Manji]], Kenyan activist and publisher * [[Firouz]] – a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government. * [[Firuz Shah Tughlaq]] (r. 1351–1388 CE), a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India * [[Firuz Kanatlı]] Turkish businessman, founder of [[Eti (company)|Eti]]. * [[Firuz Kazemzadeh]], a professor emeritus of history at Yale University * [[Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah]], an Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin * [[Peroz I]], a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled 457–484 * [[Peroz II]], a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled Oct. to Dec. 631 AD * [[Piruz Khosrow]], Persian aristocrat who murdered Queen Boran * [[Peroz III]], exiled Persian prince who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor * [[Peruz Terzekyan]], b. [[Sivas]] 1866, a [[kanto (music)|kanto]] singer * [[Pirouz Davani]], an Iranian leftist activist * [[Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh]], an Iranian political scientist and historian * [[Farooq Feroze Khan]], a Pakistan Air Force officer * [[Jam Feroz]], the last ruler of the Samma dynasty of Sindh * [[Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji]], the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty * [[Alauddin Firuz Shah I]], the son and successor of sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah * [[Alauddin Firuz Shah II]], the son and successor of sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah * [[Rukn ud din Firuz]], a Muslim Turkic ruler and the fourth Sultan of Delhi in medieval India * [[Fairuz]], a Lebanese singer * [[Pherozeshah Mehta]] * [[Shamsuddin Firoz Shah]], Sultan of [[Bengal]] from 1301 to 1322

==Characters== * [[Hajji Firuz]], the traditional herald of Nowruz

==Other== [[Pirouz (cheetah)]] Male Asiatic cheetah

==See also== * [[Piruz, Iran]], a village in Hamadan

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