Fereshteh/ Fereshtah (also transliterated as Freshteh or Ferishteh or Freshta, fereshteh / fereshtah ) is a feminine given name of Persian origin meaning angel, one of the most popular names in the Persian-speaking world. The etymology of the word is traced to Sanskrit preṣyatā प्रेष्यता and Avestan fraēšta-, messenger which led to Persian فرشته • ferešte. For phonological reasons, it is usually transcribed as Fereshtah or Freshta in the Persian spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Brief history of Fereshteh street In the early 1320s (1940 AD), Mr Mohammad Ali Masoudi, a journalist, publisher, member of parliament (Majles) and finally a senator in the Iranian Senate, Mr Masoudi built a summer house with a large garden on a dirt road named Doctor Namdar, which was off ValiAsr (Pahlavi) and went by the name of Doctor Namdar. Mr. Masoudi had two daughters, Maryam and Fereshteh and he changed part of the street name to Fereshteh and after the revolution the remainder of Doctor Namdar street was changed to Koohyar. People Firishta (1560-1620), (male) Persian historian Fereshteh Jenabi (1948-1998), Iranian actress Fereshta Kazemi (born 1979), Afghan–American film actress Fereshteh Ghazi, Iranian journalist Fereshteh Molavi (born 1953), Iranian-Canadian fiction writer and essayist Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee (born 1962), Iranian actress Fereshteh Taerpour (born 1953), Iranian film producer Fereshteh Forough Afghan computer scientist Freshta Kohistani, Afghan rights activist Places Fereshteh Jan, village in Juyom Rural District, Juyom District, Larestan County, Fars Province, Iran Film Farishta (1958 film) Notes Persian feminine given names