پریخوان

پری (pari, “supernatural being”) +‎ خوان (xân, “present stem of خواندن (xândan, “to read”)”)

پریخوان • (parīxwān / parixvân) (Tajik spelling парихон)

1. (religion) exorcist

• → Chagatai: پریخوان (pryxwān /⁠pärixān, pärixōn⁠/)
  • Uyghur: پېرىخون (përixon)
  • Uzbek: parixon
• → Turkmen: porhan

• “پریخوان”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afġānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “پریخوان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “پریخوان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• “پریخوان”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2025