Etymology

Shafiq

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Today it means: A surname from Arabic. Full definition →

Arabic شفيق
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The story

  1. Arabic · borrowed fromشفيق“compassionate”
  2. English todayShafiq

Borrowed from Arabic شفيق (shafīq, “compassionate”); this surname is predominantly found in Pakistan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.