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BERUNIY`S NICKNAME AND HIDDEN REALITY IN IT.
Ibragimov Umrbek Umarbek ogli
Urganch state University History faculty 2nd course student  
(Uzbekistan)
Annotation. The nickname Beruni is investigated on the historical and philological 
arguments in this article.
Key words: al-Beruni, Khorezm, Bayhakiy, kitab al-ansab, Krachkovsky, Ray, Tu-
prokkala palace, Khorezm language, kunia, Tolstov, Livshits
Ключевые слова:  ал-Бируни, Хорезм, Байхакий, китаб ал-ансаб, Крачков-
ский, Рай, Топраккала дворец, хорезмийский язык, куня, Толстов, Лившиц

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this subject were presented in the intro-
ductory remark by Beruniy, written by 
I. Abdullayev in Volume I of “ the Se-
lected Works”, published in Tashkent in 
1968. It is said that Beruniy was nick-
named during his childhood as he was 
interested in botany. I.Y. Krachkovsky 
(1883-1951) said that it may have been 
a nickname “ a man with basil” who is 
far from likely to be meaningful.
4
 In 
other sources, one of these expectations 
is trying to link Raykhon’s nickname to 
Ray, a city in Iran and it is said that 
Beruniy’s father was an Iranian. This is 
contrary to history. Namely, Beruniy 
described his Motherland Khorezm 
very perfectly, clearly and distinctly in 
his works, without exaggerating the his-
tory and the greatest people.
Beruniy`s works also contained many 
ethnographic information about the life 
of the Horezmians. He provided 
information about the Khorezm 
language, which was still quite active in 
his works, and, as we may know, that 
language was his mother tongue. Gener-
ally, designing Beruniy as an Iranian 
Persian on the basis of the nickname 
“Raykhon”, in our opinion, this is an er-
roneous approach. Besides, it is also 
wrong to describe it as “a person wearing 
a basil”, and to associate Beruniy with his 
interest in Botany. Because, a word is not 
about the Beruni’s nickname, but about 
his father’s name.
We consider it appropriate to link this 
issue with the Khorezm language. At the 
same time, attention should be given to 
the name of “rykhymk” in the 
4   Yu. Krachkovsky. Selected Works. Iv. Page 245
transliteration form found in Tuprokkala 
Palace archive and listed on line 13 of the 
TK K-1 number 5. S. P. Tolstov and V. A. 
Livshits recommend this person to be 
read as ‘Reykhiamak (Rekhamak)’. Candi-
date of Philology M. Eshmuradov admit-
ted that this person can also be read in the 
form of “Riykhimak”. By comparing ‘’ 
Raykhon (Reykhan) ‘’ in the Beruniy’s 
nickname with this name, it will be clear 
that both names are very similar.
We can see this much more clearly in 
the transliteration of names to the Latin 
alphabet. So, rykhymk (in Tuprokkala 
documents)  – rykhan (Beruniy nick-
name).  It is clear that there are two 
variants of differentiation. Because the 
name in this document belongs to the II-
III centuries AD. Beruniy lived in the 
10th centuries AD and there is a ten-cen-
tury difference. It should be noted that 
during this period the middle term of the 
Khorezm language came to an end, and 
next Khorezm language period started. It 
is known that there are several lexical, 
grammatical, phonetic distinctions 
between middle and later Khorezm 
languages. It may be said that the name 
Raykhan is a view of formally changed 
version of the Reykhamak.
V.A. Livshits suggests comparing the 
meaning of the name with the word 
rikhati, rekha (translation “scarlet”) in 
ancient Hindi,
5
That is to say, the nickname  of 
Beruniy’s name, “Raykhon”, so, his father’s 
name is a purely Khorezm name, which 
5  Toprakkala Palace. Proceedings of the Khorezm 
Archeological and Ethnographic Expedition, XIV 
Publishing house “Science”, Moscow 1984. Page 277

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