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Roxane

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• Pronounced： [ rok-SAHN (French), rahk-SAN (English) ]
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• Usage：French, English, Ancient Greek

French and English form of ROXANA. This is the name of Cyrano's love interest in the play 'Cyrano de Bergerac' (1897).

ROXANA   female   English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Greek (Latinized) Latin form of Ρωξανη (Roxane), the Greek form of the Persian or Bactrian name روشنک (Roshanak) which meant "bright" or "dawn". This was the name of Alexander the Great's first wife, a daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes. In the modern era it came into use during the 17th century. In the English-speaking world it was popularized by Daniel Defoe, who used it in his novel 'Roxana' (1724).