feminine Shahrzad

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Origin:
old persian
Name Root:
šahr āzād > Šīrāzād / Šahrāzād
Meaning:*
This name derives from the Persian (Fārsi) “šahr āzād > Šīrāzād / Šahrāzād”, meaning “free city”. Scheherazade is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights. Every day, the frame story goes that Shahryar would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday’s wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was unfaithful to him. He had killed one thousand such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier’s daughter.

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Namedoctor Weekly Ranking #892

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