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Shahi Posted 18 years ago
Culture

what does my name mean?

hi everybody,

my name is Shahrazed (Sheherazade), it's a legendry name, and I think it's Persian.

However I really don't know what it means, can anyone help me to find out?!!!!!Emotion: smile
  

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org/wiki/Ibn_al-Nadim , the latter meaning "she whose realm or dominion (??? šahr) is noble (???? azad)".

  • org/wiki/Ibn_al-Nadim , the latter meaning "she whose realm or dominion (???
  • šahr) is noble (????
  • azad)".
  • In explaining his spelling choice for the name Burton says, "Shahrázád (Persian) = City-freer; in the older version Scheherazade (probably both from Shirzád = lion-born).
  • 'Dunyázá' = world-freer.
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade]Wikipedia[/url] offers this:

The earliest forms of Scheherazade's name include Širazad (??????) in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masudi and Šahrazad (???????) in
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hi,

I want to thank you for your precious information.

I used to like my name because I thought it sounds nice, now I love it because it has a beautiful meaning as well.
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hey do u know what loralei means?
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Lorelai: cliff, 433 ft (132 m) high, on the right bank of the Rhine River, near St. Goarshausen, W Germany, about midway between Koblenz and Bingen. There the Rhine forms a dangerous narrows, and in German legend a fairy similar to the Greek Sirens lived on the rock and by her singing lured the sailors to their death. Heinrich Heine’s poem, Die Lorelei, is world famous. The
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Sheherazade is from the Arabic and means "city dweller". Shahrazad means "person of the city" from the Persian elements shahr "city" and zad "person".
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it probably means beautiful or wonderful i think your name is amazing[A]
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hi my name is beatriz and my sister name is shahi too.HER name mean a bag with rosees!!!!!!!!!!!!!Emotion: smile

so maybe that what your
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Shahrazad is a Persian name not arabic.. you can search for a persian names dictionary and then you will find the meaning.Emotion: wink

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