شهید

See also: شهيد and شہید

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd).

Noun

شهید • (şehid)

1. martyr
   • 1921, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, استقلال مارشى, with the plural شهدا:

     شهدا فیشقیراجق طوپراغی صیقسه‌ڭ، شهدا!

     şüheda fışkıracak toprağı sıksan şüheda!

     Martyrs would pour forth, all martyrs, should one simply clutch the earth!

Descendants

• Turkish: şehit

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃa.ˈhiːð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃä.ɦíːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃä.ɦíːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃä.jíːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃä.jíd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæ.ɦíːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃä.ɦíd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	šahīḏ
Dari reading?	šahīd
Iranian reading?	šahid
Tajik reading?	šahid

Noun

شهید • (šahid) (plural شهیدان (šahidân) or شهدا (šohadâ) or شهیدها (šahid-hâ))

1. martyr
2. (honorific) casualty, victim (of a war, a massacre, an accident)

Usage notes

• شهید (šahid) is used more widely in Persian and other Middle Eastern languages than martyr is in English (especially in official language), and includes those who did not willingly choose death or sacrifice, e.g. children.

Related terms

• شاهد (šâhed, “witness”)
• شهادت (šahâdat, “testimony, martyrdom”)

 

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शहीद (śahīd)

  Urdu: شَہِید (śahīd)

Further reading

• شهید on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “شهید”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim