Meaning & History
Avestan name that probably meant "she who speaks the injustice (to denounce it)", from arəna- "injustice" and ouuāč-ī "she who speaks". In Persian mythology this name belonged to a sister or daughter of King Jamshid. According to the 11th-century Shahnameh, she became a wife of Fereydoun and the mother of his youngest but wisest and noblest son: Iraj.