Etymology

Shaquille

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Today it means: A male given name from Arabic of modern American usage. Full definition →

Arabic شَكِيل
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromشَكِيل“handsome”
  2. English todayShaquille

A fanciful spelling of Arabic شَكِيل (šakīl, “handsome”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.