Meaning
The just and victorious king of the Shahnama who overthrew the tyrant Zahhak and is remembered as a paragon of righteous rule.
Usage & notes
Faridun is the model of the just sovereign and the overthrower of tyranny; poets invoke his reign as an image of ideal, blessed kingship.
Related words
PERSIAN
Jamshed
The legendary fourth king of the Pishdadian dynasty in Persian myth, whose splendid reign and famous world-revealing cup made him the type of glorious kingship before his fall through pride.
PERSIAN
Zahhak
The tyrant-king of the Shahnama from whose shoulders grew two serpents that had to be fed with human brains, overthrown after a thousand years by Faridun and chained in Mount Damavand.