Fereshteh or Ferishteh or Freshteh or Freshte, ''fereshteh/fereshtah'') is a feminine given name of Persian origin meaning

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, one of the most popular names in the Persian-speaking world. It is also

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as Freshteh or Fereshta or Farishta or Freshta in other languages like Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Dari along with Persian. The etymology of the word is traced to

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preṣyatā प्रेष्यता and

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fraēšta-, messenger which led to Persian فرشته • ferešte. For phonological reasons, it is usually transcribed as Fereshtah or Freshte in the Persian spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

People

Firishta Firishta or Ferešte (), full name Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi (), was a Persian historian, who later settled in India and served the Deccan Sultans as their court historian. He was born in 1570 and died between 1611 and 1623. Life F ...

(1560-1620), (male) Persian historian * Fereshteh Jenabi (1948-1998), Iranian actress * Fereshta Kazemi (born 1979), Afghan–American film actress *

Fereshta Ludin Fereshta Ludin (born 1972 in Kabul) is a German teacher of Afghan descent. She was a symbolic figure in the headscarf dispute in Germany from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Life Ludin comes from an upper-middle-class background and is the ...

, German teacher of Afghan descent. *

Fereshteh Ghazi Fereshteh Ghazi is an Iranian journalist and human rights activist. In 2004 she worked for the newspaper Etemad. She is well known for the coverage of Zahra Kazemi's murder in Evin prison. She was herself arrested and imprisoned on two occasions i ...

, Iranian journalist *

Fereshteh Molavi Fereshteh Molavi (; born 19 September 1953, Tehran) is an Iranian-Canadian fiction writer and essayist. She is also a renowned scholar and translator. Biography Born in Tehran a month after the coup in 1953, Fereshteh Molavi was raised and worke ...

(born 1953), Iranian-Canadian fiction writer and essayist *

Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee (, born 29 December 1962) is an Iranian actress. She is best known internationally for her role as Pari in '' The Circle'' (2000), which has won several awards including the Golden Lion at the 57th Venice International Fi ...

(born 1962), Iranian actress *

Fereshteh Taerpour Fereshteh Taerpour (; 4 February 1953 – 17 August 2021) was the first Iranian female independent film producer and writer. Career With over 40 years of experience as a journalist, writer, film producer, jury member, speaker, cultural event o ...

(born 1953), Iranian film producer *

Fereshteh Forough Fereshteh Forough (born 1985) is an Afghans, Afghan Activism, social activist and the CEO and founder of Code to Inspire (CTI), the first coding school for girls in Afghanistan. She is an advocate for gender equality and the empowerment of women i ...

Afghan computer scientist *

Freshta Kohistani Freshta Kohistani ()(1991 – 24 December 2020) was an Afghan Tajik woman's rights activist and a pro-democracy advocate, who had frequently spoken against a wave of assassinations in Afghanistan. She was herself assassinated at the age of 29 ...

, Afghan rights activist

Places

Fereshteh Jan Fereshteh Jan (, also Romanized as Fereshteh Jān; also known as Fereshtehjūn and Fereshteh Khān) is a village in Juyom Rural District, Juyom District, Larestan County, Fars province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ...

, village in Juyom Rural District, Juyom District, Larestan County, Fars Province, Iran

Film

Farishta (1958 film) ''Farishta'' is a 1958 Indian Hindi-language suspense thriller film directed by Ravindra Dave. It stars Sohrab Modi, Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari. Cast *Sohrab Modi as Dayal *Ashok Kumar as Chandan / Ashok *Meena Kumari as Shobha *Anita Guha as R ...

Farishta (2023 film) ''Farishta'' is a 2023 Indian Bhojpuri-language drama film produced by S. S. Reddy, directed by Lal Babu Pandit and written by Arvind Tiwari. It stars Khesari Lal Yadav, Meghasri, Pooja Gaguly, Amit Shukla in the main roles. The story revolves a ...

Notes

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