Hotep — In HS, a Stygian servant of Zeriti; in CA, a name assumed by Conan in- Fort Wakla. An old Egyptian name meaning "contented."
Hsia — In CM, a former king of Rusan. A semi-legendary early dynasty of China.
Hyborian, Hyborean, Hybori — In RN, BR, TT, &c, the race that overthrew the empire of Acheron and set up in its place the kingdoms of Nemedia, Aquilonia, Brythunia, Argos, and the Border Kingdom. From Hyperborea (q.v.). See Bori.
Hyperborea — In TE and GB, a northeasterly land, east of Asgard. In Greek legend, a happy land in the Far North; the name means "beyond the North Wind."
Hyrkania, Hyrcania — In TE, QC, BC, &c, the land east of the Vdayet Sea. The Turanians, dwelling west of that sea, are also of Hyrkanian origin and are commonly called Hyrkanians. In Classical geography, a region southeast of the Caspian or Hyrcanian Sea corresponding to modern Iranian Mazanderan + Asterabad. The name is Greek for the Old Persian Varkana, one of the Achaemenid satrapies, and survives in the name of the river Gurgan. The original meaning may have been "wolfland." Hyrkania was briefly an independent kingdom in +I. In Iranian legend, Hyrkania was remarkable for its wizards and demons.
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Ianthe — In SK, KD, the capital of Ophir. In Greek myth, am oceanid or marine nymph.
Ibis — In GB, a god. Any of several species of heronlike birds, one of which, Threskiornis aethiopica, was held sacred in ancient Egypt.
Ilbars — In SM, a Turanian river; in FK, a range of mountains south of the Vdayet Sea. From the Elburz Mountains, Iran.
Ilga — In LW, a Virunian girl. A combination of the Norse names Inga and Helga.
Imbalayo — In HS, the commander of the Kushite troops in Pelishtia. A pseudo-Zulu name.
Imirus — In CA, WM, CI, a barony of Aquilonia.
Irakzai — In PC, a Himelian tribe. From the Orakzai, Pakhtum tribe mentioned in Lowell Thomas's Beyond Khyber Pass, which Howard read.
Iranistan — In BG, RE, PC, &c, an eastern land corresponding to modern Iran. From Iran + the Persian istán, están, "country."
Irem — In SM, Shah Amurath's horse. From "ancient Irem, the City of Pdlars," mentioned by H. P. Lovecraft in "The Nameless City," and possibly ultimately from Iram, in Arabian legend a deserted city in Yaman. See "The City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kilabah" in Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights, v. IV, pp. 113ff.
Ishbak — In HS, a name assumed by Conan in Asgalun. A Phoenician name.
Ishtar — In QC, BC, SM, &c, a Shemitish goddess also worshiped in the Hyborian nations. The Assyro-Babylonian goddess of love (Hebrew Ashtoreth, Phoenician 'Atar'ata, Syrian Atargatis, Greek Astartê).
Issedon — In CS, one of the seven sacred cities of Meru.
Itzra — In CI, an Antillian chief. A synthetic Egypto-Mayan name.
Ivanos — In SM, RE, a Corinthian pirate. From Ivan, Russian for "John," + the Greek masculine nominative ending -os.
Ivga — In WB, Valerius' sweetheart. Possibly from Inga, a Norwegian female given name.
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Jaga — In CM, a head-hunting tribe of the hill region between Kusan and Hyrkania. A Bantu tribe of southern Zaire..
Jalung Thongpa — In CS, the god-king of Meru. A pseudo-Tibetan name.
Jamal — In PS, a Turanian soldier. From the Arabic jamal, "camel," often used as a personal name.
Jamankh — In IG, a hyena-demon. From Jajamankh or Zazamankh, a legendary Egyptian magician.
Jehun — See Amir. From Shah Jahan or Jehan, a Mughal emperor of +XVII, the builder of the Taj Mahal.
Jehungir, Jungir — Jehungir is a Turanian lord in DI, while Jungir Khan is another in SZ. From Jahangir ("world-conqueror"), Shah Jahans predecessor as Mughal emperor, +XVII.
Jelal — In DI, Jelal Khan is a Turanian noble. From the Arabic proper name Jalal.
Jerida — In CB, a place in Zingara. From the Spanish place names Jérez, Mérida.
Jhebbal — See Djebal.
Jhelai — In PC, a place in Vendhya. From the Jhelam or Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus.
Jhil — A supernatural being mentioned in BR. Possibly from Chil, the kite in Kipling's Second Jungle Book; there is also a Jhal, India, and a Hindi word jhîl, "swamp."
Jhumda — In PC, a river in Vendhya. From the river Jamna, Jumna, or Yamuna in India, and the river Jhelam in Pakistan.
Jihiji — In VW, a village in Kush. Possibly from Jijiga, Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
Jhilites — In FK, a cult of followers of Jhil (q.v.).
Jillad — In BG, a pseudonym of Zyras. This name was used in Howard's original non-Conan story, "The Trail of the Blood-Stained God."
Joka — In RH, a servant of Nabonidus. Possibly from the Djukas, tribal Negroes of Surinam, South America, descendants of escaped slaves. (Cf. Ajonga.)
Jon — In BB, Jon Gaiter's son is a dead friend of the narrator. From "John"; see Gaiter.
Jugra — In PC, a Wazuli village. A name for the Magyars or Hungarians.
Julio — In CB, a Zingaran goldsmith. A Spanish given name, from the Roman gentile name Julius.
Juma — In CS, CM, a Kushite serving in the Turanian army; later, in CB, he becomes the chief of a tribe in Kush. A common East African given name.
Jumballa — In SD, the capital of Kush. Howard spelled it "Shumballa" (possibly from Shambalai, a hill region in Tanzania) but I changed the name because Carter and I needed the similar name "Shamballa" (q.v.) for CS.
Junia — In SK, the wife of Torgrio the thief. From Junius, a common Roman gentile name, e.g., Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of Caesar's assassins.
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Kaa-Yazoth — In CI, a ruler of the Adantean Age.
Kalanthes (=Caranthes) — In GB, discarded. Kalanthes was Howard's original form, but I changed it to Caranthes because I thought it too much like Kallian (q.v.), the name of another character in the same story.
Kallian — In GB, Kallian Publico is an art dealer. From the common Greek name Kallias.
Kambuja — In WM, a land east of Vendhya. The original name of Cambodia, now Kampuchea.
Kamula — In CB, a long-vanished city of Adantean times.
Kamelia — In TE, a kingdom of Atlantean times. Possibly from the camellia, a shrub of the tea family bearing large white flowers. The Knights of the White Camelia, formed in 1867, was one of a number of white-supremacist secret societies, of which the Ku Klux Klan is the best known, active in the former Confederate states at that time. Possibly also from Camelot, King Arthur's legendary capital.
Karaban — In PS, an Aquilonian county. Possibly from Karaman, Turkey.
Kang Hsiu — In CA, a Khitan. Common Chinese names.
Kang Lou-Dze — In CA a Khitan girl Common Chinese names.
Kapellez — In CB, the captain of the Zingaran royal yacht. A pseudo-Spanish name.
Karlus — In BB, an Aquilonian ranger at Fort Kwan-yara. From the common German name Karl (Latin, Carolus).
Karnath — In the first draft of CC, a Stygian city (discarded). Possibly from Lovecraft's Sarnath, in "The Doom That Came to Samath." Lovecraft invented the name and was then surprised to learn that it was the name of a real city near Banaras, India.
Kassali — In IG, the capital of Punt From Kassala, a town in the Sudan.
Kchaka — In RZ, the ancestors of the dominant tribe of Zembabwei. From Chaga, an East African tribe, or from Chaka, the Zulu emperor, for which see Chagan.
Keluka — In HS, a Kushite soldier in Asgalun. A pseudo-Swahih name.
Kemosh — In CA, a Zuagir god. From Chemosh, a Canaanite god (Num. 21:29).
Keraspa — In BG, a Kezankian chieftain. From Kere-saspa, a legendary Persian hero.
Kerim — In PC, Kerim Shah is a Turanian spy in Vendhya. From the Arabic karîm, "generous," used as a proper name in Muslim countries. Keshan,
Keshia — In JG, IG, RZ, a black kingdom and its capital respectively. Probably from Kesh or Kash, an ancient Egyptian name for Nubia, whence Hebrew (and Howard's) Kush.
Kezankian Mts. — In BG, a range separating Turan from Zamora. Suggested by the Russian geographical names Kazan and Kazak.
Khafra — In HS, a Stygian servant of Zeriti. The Fourth Dynasty king of Egypt who built the Sphinx (Greek, Chephren).
Khahabul (=Khorbul, q.v.) — In first draft of PC, discarded.
Khajar — In CB, BN, an oasis in western Stygia, where Thoth-Amon lived. From Kajar or Qajar, an Iranian tribe and a Persian dynasty, 1794-1925.
Khan — See Chengir, Jehungir, Khosru. A Turko-Tatar word meaning "lord" or "prince."
Khannon — In HS, a Pelishti wine-seller. A Phoenician name.
Khanyria — In CA, a city in Khoraja. From Khan -F Graeco-Roman names like Syria, Illyria, &c.
Kharamun — In SZ, a southeastern desert. Possibly from the same source as Karaban (q.v.).
Kharoya — In CA, a Zuagir tribe.
Khauran — In WB, CA, a small southeastern Hyborian kingdom. Probably from Mt Hauran, Syria.
Khawarizm, Khawarism — In DI, a Turanian city near the southern end of the Sea of Vilayet. From Khwarasm of Chorasmia, a medieval Muslim kingdom in Turkestan; modern Khurasan or Khorassan, Iran. The name comes from the Old Persian Huvarazmish, a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. (Cf. Khorusun.)
Khaza — In FK, a Stygian. An Egyptian king of the Fourteenth Dynasty, c. -1700.
Khel — See Khosatral Khel. Probably from khel, a Pakhtu word for family or sept; e.g., "Mai Khel Mahsud," a man of the Mai family of the Mahsud tribe.
Khemi — In QC, SZ, TT, &c., the main seaport and administrative capital of Stygia. From Kamt, Kam, Chem, or Chemia, ancient names for Egypt, probably connected with qam, "black," of "Khem," an Egyptian god of fertility.
Khemsa — In PC, a wizard serving the Black Circle. From Khamseh, a tribe of Arabian origin in southern Iran.
Kherdpur — In CA, a Turanian city. From the Kurds of Kurdistan.
Kheshatta — In VW, a city of magicians in Stygia. Probably from Peshitta, the name of an old Syriac version of the Bible.
Khirgulis — In CA, a Himelian tribe. From Kirgiz, a Turko-Tatar people, now a republic of the Soviet Union, bordering Sinkiang.
Khitai, Khitans — In TE, RH, WB, &c., a far-eastern land and its inhabitants. From "Khitan," a medieval Tatar word for China, whence the English word "Cathay."
Khor — In first draft of CC, a valley in Aquilonia (discarded). Probably from the same sources as Ghor and Khorbul (q.v.).
Khoraf — In CA, a Vilayet port favored by slavers.
Khoraja, Khorala — Respectively, a small southern Hyborian city-state in BC and a place in Vendhya, whence came the jewel "Star of Khorala," in SZ, SK. The first syllable is probably from the Arabic hor, "lake" or "marsh," which occurs in many place names. Khôr was also an ancient Egyptian name for the Khurri or Hurrians.
Khoraspa (=Khoraja, q.v.) — In the first draft of BC (discarded).
Khorbul — In PC, a city in the Himelias. From hor (see Khoraja, above) 4- Kabul, Afghanistan.
Khorosun, Khorusun, Khurusun — In DI, PC, CA, a Turanian city. From Khurasan, Iran (cf. Khawarizm).
Khorotas — In CC, the Aquilonian river on which Tarantia stands. Probably from hor (see Khoraja) + Eurotas, the Greek river on which Sparta stands (modern Iri or Evrotos).
Khorshemish — In SC, KD, the capital of Koth. From hor (See Khoraja) + Carchemish, an ancient Syrian city later called Europus.
Khosala — See Kosala.
Khosatral Khel — In DI, a demon who once ruled Dagonia. "Khosatral" is possibly a combination of Khushal Khan, a Pakhtun poet and leader of +XVII, + Chitral, a Pakhtun tribe. (See also Khel.)
Khosru — In PC, Khosrun Khan is the governor of Secunderam; in CA, a Turanian fisherman. The name of several Iranian kings, also spelled Khusru, Khosrau, or Chosroes.
Khossus — A king of Khoraja in BC, SD, and of Koth in SC. From Knossos or Cnossus, the capital of Minoan Crete.
Khotan — In BC, Thugra Khotan is the original name of Natohk, the veiled prophet. A river and a town in Sinkiang or Chinese Turkestan. (Cf. Thugra, Natohk.) "Natohk" is an obvious anagram of "Khotan."
Khozgari — In PS, a Turanian mountain tribe. Probably from Kashgar, a city in western Sinkiang or Chinese Turkestan.
Khrosha —A volcanic region in Koth alluded to in SM, SD, CC. Possibly from Khorshid, Iran, or from Kosha, Nubia. Kosha, like its neighbor Akasha, probably gets its name from Kash, ancient Egyptian for Nubia (cf. Keshan, Kush).
Khumbanigash — In WB, the general of Constantius' Shemitish mercenaries. A king of Elam (modern Khuzi-stan) in -VIII.
Khurakzai — In PC, a Himelian tribe. From Khuram, Afghanistan, + -zai (cf. Dagozai, Khurum).
Khurum — In PC, a Wazufi village and a legendary Amir. From Khuram, Afghanistan (cf. Khurakzai).
Khurusun — See Khorusun.
Khushia — In RE, the chief wife of King Yildiz.
Khusro — In CM, a Turanian soldier. A variant of Khosru (q.v.).
Kidessa — In DT, an oasis in the southern deserts, near Tombalku.
Kobad Shah — In FK, the king of Iranistan. A Persian name (also Kavata, Qobadh, &c; Greek, Kobades) borne by various Iranian notables.
Kordava, Kordafan — In the original manuscript and outline of SD, Howard mentioned a black country as "Kordafan" and a wizard from there as "a Kordafan." The name comes from Kordofan, a province of the Sudan. To bring the noun and the adjective into proper relationship, I changed the name of the country to "Kordafa."
Kordava — In PO, CB, TT, &c, the capital and main seaport of Zingara. From Cordova (Spanish C6rdoba), Spain.
Kordofo — In DT, Conan's predecessor as general of the cavalry of Tombalku. From the same source as Kordafa (q.v.).
Kormon — In BB, Lord Thasperas of Kormon is patron of Schohira. There is a French surname, "Cor-mon," but any connection is doubtful. Korunga (=Gwarunga, q.v.) In one non-final draft of JG, discarded. See Ahrunga.
Korveka — A place mentioned in WB. Cf. Korvela.
Korvela — In TT, a bay on the Pictish coast, so named by Zingaran settlers. Possibly a combination of Cordova + caravela ("caravel"), Portuguese for a small, lateen-rigged ship.
Korzetta — In TT, a county of Zingara. Possibly suggested by Khorbetta (Hurbeit, Bdbeis, ancient Phar-baethos), Egypt.
Kosala, Khosala — An eastern nation alluded to in SZ, PC, RN. From Kosala or Koshala, a kingdom in northern India in the time of the Buddha (-563 to -483).
Kosha — See Yag-Kosha, Khrosha.
Koth — In TE, QC, SM, &c, a southern Hyborian kingdom. Probably from the "Sign of Koth" in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath." There is a town of Koth in Gujarat, India, but the connection is doubtful. Howard used the same name in his interplanetary novel Almuric.
Kozak — In SM, WB, DI, &c, one of a brotherhood of outlaws in Turan and Hyrkania. Russian for "Cossack," ultimately from the Turkish quzak, "adventurer."
Krallides — In WB, a Khauranian councilor. Cf. Trallibes.
Kshatriyas — In PC, CA, the Vendhyans or their ruhng caste. The warrior caste of ancient India.
Kuigars — In CS, CM, a nomadic people of Hyrkania. From the Uigurs, a Turkish people of Mongolia and Turkestan.
Kujala — In FK, a Yezmite. From Kujula (q.v.).
Kujula — In CS, CM, the khan of the Kuigars. A king of the Yiie-Chi, +I.
Kulalo — In CB, Juma's capital. From the Kololo, a Tswana people who ruled an empire in Zambia and Rhodesia in the 1830s and 40s.
Kull — In TC, CT, SH, and the Rull stories, an At* lantean who becomes king of Valusia.
Kurush Khan — In RE, a Hyrkanian chief. Kûrush is the original Persian form of the name of Cyrus the Great (cf. Kyros).
Kusan — In CM, SH, a small kingdom in western Khitai. A pseudo-Chinese name.
Kushaf — In FK, a region in the Hbars Mountains.
Kutamun — In BC, a Stygian prince. Possibly from Kutama, a medieval Berber tribe of Algeria.
Ku
th — In SS, a dream place, probably from the same source as Koth (q.v.).
Kuthchemes — In BC, FK, a ruined city in the Shemitish desert. Possibly from the Hindustani kut, "fort," + Chemmis (ancient Khemmis, Shmin, Apu, or Panopolis; modern Akhmim), Egypt.
Kwanyara — In BB, a fort on the borders of Schohira. A pseudo-Iroquois name.
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