Shahid is a male Muslim name and Arabic in origin. The name is most common[clarification needed] in Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
It is not to be confused with a different word, a religious term, written and pronounced differently, Shaheed (Arabic: شهيد šahīd, plural: شُهَدَاء šuhadāʾ; female: šaheeda), meaning "martyr". The term Shaheed (
Arabic: شَهيدšahīd), "martyr", is used as A martyr who is slain in the cause of God's religion; one who is slain by unbelievers in the field of battle; one who is slain fighting in the cause of God's religion[citation needed].
People named Shahid
Given name
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (born 1958), politician and former Prime Minister of Pakistan
^"One who tells, or gives information of, what he has witnessed, or seen or beheld with his eye; one who declares what he know [...] a witness, as meaning one who gives testimony, or evidence; who bears witness; [...]The witness against those to whom he has been sent." Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon (1863) I.1611.
See also
Look up شهد or شاهد in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Look up Shaheed or Shahid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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