شهد

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Root
ش ه د (š-h-d)

Verb[edit]

شَهِدَ (šahida) I, non-past يَشْهَدُ‎ (yašhadu)

  1. to witness, to be a witness
  2. to experience personally, to see with one’s own eyes
  3. to be present, to attend, to be around
  4. to see
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Verb[edit]

شَهِدَ (šahida) I, non-past يَشْهَدُ‎ (yašhadu)

  1. to testify, to bear witness, to give testimony, to give evidence
    شَهِدَ الشَّاهِدُ بِالحَقِّ أَمَامَ القَاضِي.
    šahida š-šāhidu bi-l-ḥaqqi ʔamāma l-qāḍī.
    The witness testified to the truth in front of the judge.
  2. to attest, to confirm, to certify
  3. to witness (a signature)
  4. to acknowledge, to adjudge
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Etymology 2[edit]

From ش ه د (š-h-d), uncertain sense, perhaps from likening the honeycombs to the graves of martyrs or the swarming of people at such shrines like bees swarm around a hive; see مشهد. Otherwise from the mucus that covers a fetus at birth; the meaning of birth is extended from the "being around" or "being present" of verb form I.

Noun[edit]

شَهْد or شُهْد (šahd or šuhdm (plural شِهَاد (šihād))

  1. honey especially still in the honeycomb
    Synonym: عَسَل (ʕasal)
    • 13th century, Saʿdī aš-Šīrāzī, دیوان سعدی:
      فَكَمْ تُمَرِّرُ عَيْشِي وَأَنْتَ حامِلُ شَهْدٍ
      fakam tumarriru ʕayšī waʔanta ḥāmilu šahdin
      And how much you make my life bitter and [although] you are a carrier of honey
  2. honeycomb
  3. melon, cantaloupe
  4. nectar
  5. (figuratively) anything pleasant
  6. (figuratively, from stickiness) semen, menstruation
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Descendants[edit]
  • Persian: شَهْد (šahd)
    • Hindi: शहद (śahad)
    • Urdu: شہد

Etymology 3[edit]

Adjective[edit]

شُهَّد (šuhhadm pl

  1. masculine plural of شَاهِد (šāhid)

References[edit]

Persian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic شَهْد (šahd).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? šahd
Dari reading? šahd
Iranian reading? šahd
Tajik reading? šahd

Noun[edit]

شهد (šahd)

  1. nectar (in the flower, before bees make it into honey)
  2. (archaic) honey
    Synonyms: عسل (asal), انگبین (angabin)
  3. (figurative) something sweet
    • c. 1380, Jahān Malik Khātūn, “Ghazal 265”, in دیوان جهان [Divān-i Jahān]‎[3]:
      ای دل چو جهان به کام ما نیست
      شهباز وفا به دام ما نیست
      وز شهد وصال آن دلارام
      جز زهر جفا به جام ما نیست
      ay dil čū jahān ba kām-i mā nēst
      šahbāz-i wafā ba dām-i mā nēst
      w-az šahd-i wisāl-i ān dilārām
      juz zahr-i jafā ba jām-i mā nēst
      O heart! Since the world is not as we would wish it,
      The falcon of loyalty is not in our snare,
      And from the honey of reunion with that heart-soothing one,
      There is nothing but the venom of torment in our cup.
      (Classical Persian romanization)

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