Girl · Persian (Urdu usage) · Muslim
Afshan
افشاںSay it af-SHAAN
- Meaning today
- Spreading, scattering, glitter
- Original meaning
- "scattering, sprinkling; gold or silver glitter worn on the face and hair" Steingass, p. 83
- Say it
- af-SHAAN
- Written
- افشاں
- Other spellings
- Afshaan, Afshana
Afshan
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Afshan meaning
Afshan (افشاں) is a Muslim girl's name of Persian origin (Urdu usage).
Scattering, sprinkling; gold or silver glitter worn on the face and hair
Also used to mean: spreading
Afshan (افشاں) is Persian afshān, from afshāndan, "to scatter or sprinkle". Steingass' Persian dictionary gives it as scattering or spreading, as in gul-afshān, "strewing roses". In Urdu the word also became a noun: Platts' dictionary describes afshāṉ as fine gold or silver leaf or tinsel, pasted as ornament on a woman's forehead and cheeks. Name lists give Afshan as "spreading" or "scattering", which follows the dictionary; the glittering ornament is the warmer sense many families have in mind.
Source: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian–English Dictionary (1892), p. 83 · entry afshān (افشان) · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Steingass, Persian–English Dictionary, afshān, p. 83 · Platts, Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English, afshān, p. 62
Spellings
Afshan · Afshaan · Afshana