An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. The act of promoting someone to a higher job, grade, or rank, or the fact of being so promoted.
   

   2. Support or encouragement of the progress, growth, or acceptance of something.
      

   3. An act, event, or offer that helps to increase interest in or demand for something (FreeDictionary.com).

Etymology (EN): Verbal noun of → promote.

Etymology (PE): Farkašan, literally “draw forward, pull up,” from far-, variant of farâ-, → pro-, + kašan “drawing, pull,” from kaš present stem of kašidan, → galaxy, + noun suffix -an.