Etymology

Seyed

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Today it means: A male given name from Persian, variant of Sayyid Full definition →

Iranian Persian سید ← Classical Persian سَیِّد ← Arabic سَيِّد
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromسَيِّد
  2. Classical Persian · derived fromسَیِّد
  3. Iranian Persian · borrowed fromسید
  4. English todaySeyed

Borrowed from Iranian Persian سید (seyyed), from Classical Persian سَیِّد (sayyid), from Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid).

Words from the same roots

Arabicسَيِّد all →

SayyidSaidiSaidpur

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.