Wuzurgan
Sign in to saveWuzurgān (, meaning "grandees" or the "great ones"), also known by its Modern Persian form of '''''' (), was the name of the high nobility and the third class-rank of the four of the Sasanian aristocracy. After the fall of the Sasanian Empire, they reappear under the Dabuyid dynasty.
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Wuzurgān (, meaning "grandees" or the "great ones"), also known by its Modern Persian form of '''''' (), was the name of the high nobility and the third class-rank of the four of the Sasanian aristocracy. After the fall of the Sasanian Empire, they reappear under the Dabuyid dynasty.
==Etymology== The word is the plural form of the word 'big, great', which is derived from the Old Persian word , which is in turn hypothesized to derive from the Proto-Indo-European word 'to be strong, lively, awake'.
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