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Gender Masculine
Usage Old Persian (Hellenized), History
Scripts Ὀροφέρνης(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsOlophernes
Meaning & History
Hellenized form of Old Persian *Varufarnāh, from the Old Persian elements *varuš meaning "wide" and *farnāh meaning "glory, splendour, fortune". This was the name of a king of Cappadocia, who lived in the 2nd century BC.