Roshanak or Rowshanak (Persian: روشنک, from early Avestan raoxšna-; adjective: "shining, bright", noun: "light") is a Persian female name.
This name has several meanings such as shining little star, lovely flare, and luminous beauty.
Ῥωξάνη (Rhōxanē) is the Greek form of this name, Latinised as Roxana, and refers to the Bactrian noblewoman who was the daughter of Oxyartes of Bactria (not Sogdiana[1]) and the official wife of Alexander the Great.
Bactria was in the northeastern part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, defeated by Alexander's army in 330 BCE.
Rahşan is the Turkish variant of the name, being borrowed from the Persian one.