সাকিব

Bengali

Alternative forms

শাকিব (śakib), ছাকিব (chakib /⁠sakib⁠/)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ثاقِب (ṯāqib, literally “piercer”), originally the active participle of ثَقَبَ (ṯaqaba, “to pierce”), with the meaning commonly held as "(piercingly) bright" after the Quranic phrase of اَلنَّجْمُ ٱلثَّاقِبُ (an-najmu ṯ-ṯāqibu, “[It is] the star which is piercing[ly] [bright]”).

Pronunciation

(Rarh) IPA^(key): /sakib/, [ˈsakib], /ʃakib/, [ˈʃakib]

(Dhaka) IPA^(key): /sakib/, [ˈsakib], /ʃakib/, [ˈʃakib]

Proper noun

সাকিব • (sakib)

a male given name, Sakib, Shakib, Saqib, or Saquib, from Arabic