Arash Labaf is an Iranian-Swedish singer who represented Azerbaijan with Aysel with the song "Always". They qualified from the semi final and cracked the Top 10.
Arash Borhani is a retired Iranian football player who currently plays for Paykan in Iran's Premier Football League and was a member of the Iran national football team. He is the all-time top goal scorer of Esteghlal and also the second all-time top goal scorers in Iran's Premier Football League. He was the top goal scorer of 2008–09 Iran's Premier Football League. Borhani won a bronze medal in 2006 Asian Games with Iran national under-23 football team.
Written as آرش in Persian. I'm indifferent about this name, but would never use it in an anglophone country.
― Anonymous User 12/1/2009
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I've got a cousin named Arash. In contrary to the pronunciation above, it's AHR-ash, not ah-RAHSH. We're Iranian, so I'm pretty sure our pronunciation is correct, but I'm not 100% sure.That being said, I don't love the name, but I don't hate it either. It's kind of unusable in English-speaking countries due to the whole 'rash' thing, but I don't think my cousin has ever been teased for it!
― Anonymous User 4/20/2008
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I had a feeling that people would misinterpret the pronunciation of this fine name; it's "ah-RAHSH", not "uh-RASH". It sounds nothing like "rash".