Roksolana
From Greek: "from the dawn", derived from the ancient Greek for east or dawn.
Meaning and origin
Roksolana is the Ukrainian and Russian form of Roxelana, a name rooted in ancient Greek and popularised through historical figures, most famously Roxelana (Hürrem Sultan), the 16th-century wife of the Ottoman Sultan…
How to pronounce Roksolana
| Ukrainian (Ukraine) | rok-so-LAH-nah /roksoˈlɑnɑ/ |
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