Etymology

Shahryar

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Today it means: Name of the fictional Persian Sassanid King of Kings married to Scheherazade in the story One Thousand and One Nights. Full definition →

Classical Persian شَهْرْیَار
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The story

  1. Classical Persian · borrowed fromشَهْرْیَار
  2. English todayShahryar

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَهْرْیَار (šahryār).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.