شهد

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Arabic

Etymology 1

    Root
    ش ه د (š h d)
    11 terms

    Verb

    شَهِدَ (šahida) I (non-past يَشْهَدُ (yašhadu), verbal noun شُهُود (šuhūd))

    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
    Conjugation

    Verb

    شَهِدَ (šahida) I (non-past يَشْهَدُ (yašhadu), verbal noun شَهَادَة (šahāda))

    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
    Conjugation
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

    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

    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 [Dīwān of Saʿdī]:
        فَكَمْ تُمَرِّرُ عَيْشِي وَأَنْتَ حامِلُ شَهْدٍ
        fakam tumarriru ʕayšī waʔanta ḥāmilu šahdin
        And how much you make my life bitter and you are a carrier of honey
    2. honeycomb
    3. melon, cantaloupe
    4. nectar
    5. (figuratively) anything pleasant
    6. (figuratively, from stickiness) semen, menstruation
    Declension
    Descendants
    • Persian: شَهْد (šahd)
      • Hindi: शहद (śahad)
      • Urdu: شہد

    Etymology 3

    Adjective

    شُهَّد (šuhhadm pl

    1. masculine plural of شَاهِد (šāhid)

    References

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    Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic شَهْد (šahd).

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

    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]‎:
        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)

    Descendants

    Further reading

    • Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “شهد”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 237
    • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “شهد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim