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Shahid or Shaheed Given Name
Gender Male	Meaning Witness or Martyr	Region of Origin Middle East Middle East The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East... , South Asia South Asia South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...	Language of Origin Arabic	Wikipedia articles

Shahid or Shaheed is a Muslim theophoric name, from Ash-Shaheed

Ash-Shaheed

Ash-Shaheed is #50 of the 99 Names of Allah, and translates from Arabic as The Witness. The One who sees all, both seen and unseen. The constant observer....

 (الشهيد), one of the 99 names of God in the Qur'an.

As a male given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 it is common among Muslims, being also one of the names given to Muhammad

Muhammad

Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...

. It is the Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 word شَهيد meaning both witness

Witness

A witness is someone who has firsthand knowledge about an event, or in the criminal justice systems usually a crime, through his or her senses and can help certify important considerations about the crime or event. A witness who has seen the event first hand is known as an eyewitness...

 and martyr.

In India and Pakistan, the two meanings in Arabic have diverged with different pronunciations. Shāhid (SHA-hed) is a noun meaning "witness" in Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 and Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

, whereas Shaheed (Shahīd, sha-HEED) means "martyr". In these countries, Shahid is commonly given as a name, whereas Shaheed is less so.

Notable people named Shahid or Shaheed

Famous people with this name include:

• Shahid Afridi
  Shahid Afridi
  Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi , popularly known as Shahid Afridi , is a Pakistani cricketer. Between 1996 and 2011, Afridi played 27 Tests, 325 One Day Internationals, and 43 Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani national team...
  
   (born 1980), Pakistani cricketer
• Shahid Kapoor
  Shahid Kapoor
  Shahid Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. He is also a trained dancer.Starting off his career by working in music videos and advertisements, Kapoor made his Bollywood debut as a background dancer in Subhash Ghai's Taal . Four years later, he made his acting debut in Ishq...
  
   (born 1981), Bollywood actor
• Shaheed Latif
  Shaheed Latif
  Shaheed Latif or more appropriately Shahid Lateef was Hindi film director, writer, and producer. He was the maker of films like Ziddi with launched Dev Anand's career and Arzoo starring Dilip Kumar and Kamini Kaushal...
  
   (1913–1967), Indian film producer
• Shahid (actor)
  Shahid (actor)
  Shahid Hameed , known as Shahid, is a Pakistani film actor who starred in many films of the 1970s and 1980s. His first film was Aansoo, released in 1971. Shahid worked in more than 150 films. Shahid's last film ZOR was released in 1998.- Career :Shahid entered in the film industry in 1970...
  
  , Pakistani actor active from 1971 to 1998
• Mohammed Shahid
  Mohammed Shahid
  Mohammed Shahid is a former field hockey player from India. A dashing forward with the ability to weave past any defence with his amazing dribbling skills. He was a member of the Indian team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and was captain of India during 1985-86...
  
   (born 14 April 1960), Indian field hockey
  Field hockey
  Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
  
   player
• Shahid Parvez Khan (born October 14, 1955), Indian sitar maestro

shahid karur 09843198525

See also

• Shahid (disambiguation)
• Shahidi
  Shahidi
  Shahidi is a common surname in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Like the given name Shahid, it is a Muslim theophoric name, from Ash-Shaheed , one of the 99 names of God in the Qur'an. It is derived from the Arabic word for witness or martyr....
  
   (surname)
• All pages beginning with Shaheed
• All pages beginning with Shahid