Persian: the Jihun

[Yasmeen El Araby]

What is "the Jihun"?

Text: "'Yes,' he said, 'the ground is all cooked between here and Mazar, but it is green again near the Jihun,' employing this word for the Oxus, and not understanding our reference to it as the Amu Darya."

Source: The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron

 

[Qureshpor]

What is "the Jihun"?

Text: "'Yes,' he said, 'the ground is all cooked between here and Mazar, but it is green again near the Jihun,' employing this word for the Oxus, and not understanding our reference to it as the Amu Darya."

Source: The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron

From Wikipedia, "The name Amu is said to have come from the medieval city of Āmul, (later, Chahar Joy/Charjunow, and now known as Türkmenabat), in modern Turkmenistan, with Darya being the Persian word for "lake" and Amu being "uncle". Medieval Arabic and Islamic sources call the river Jayhoun (Arabic: جَـيْـحُـوْن, romanized: h; also Jaihun, Jayhoon, or Dzhaykhun) which is derived from Gihon, the biblical name for one of the four rivers of the Garden of Eden.[6][7]"

So, Jaihuun is the Arabic equivalent for Amu Darya.