Roshanak

Roshanak (Persian:روشنک‎‎ from Young Avestan raoxšna-; adjective: "shining, bright" noun: "light") is a traditional Iranian name for a female.

This name has several meanings such as shining star, lovely flare and luminous beauty.

Roxana is the Greek pronunciation of this name and refers to a Bactrian noblewoman who was the daughter of Oxyartes of Bactria (not Sogdiana) and the official wife of Alexander the Great. Bactria was the northwestern part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, defeated by Alexander's army in 330 BCE.