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Asman
Sky, heaven
The story of the name
Asman — the word originally named both sky and stone; our ancestors saw the sky as a stone vault. The root is Proto-Iranian asman-. As a name it is the height that holds everything beneath it.
Etymology
Root: asman · Kurmancî
Asman descends from Proto-Iranian asman-, originally also meaning stone — the ancients understood the sky as a stone vault. The same root yields Persian âsmân and Avestan asman-. The cosmological double sense (sky and stone) is also visible in Sanskrit aśman-.
Name family
- Asmîn · derived — feminine form
- Stêrk · cognate — star — what fills the asman
Linguistic parallels
- Akash Sanskrit — 'Himmel'
Updated: 2026-05-02