Etymology

Shabazz

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Arabic شَعْب ← Persian شهباز
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The story

  1. Persian · derived fromشهباز“royal falcon”
  2. Arabic · derived fromعَزّ“to be mighty or glorious”
  3. Arabic · derived fromشَعْب“a people”
  4. English todayShabazz

From Arabic شَعْب (šaʕb, “a people”) and Arabic عَزّ (ʕazz, “to be mighty or glorious”). Also possibly from Persian شهباز (šahbâz, “royal falcon”), from شاه (shāh, “king”), + باز (bāz, “hawk, falcon”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.