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- Arabic · borrowed fromشَحَّاتَة
- English todayShehata
Borrowed from Arabic شَحَّاتَة (šaḥḥāta), from شَحَّات (šaḥḥāt, “beggar”). In the Dictionary of American Family Names, the surname is given as a variant of Shehadeh, which is apparently from a different root. This surname is predominantly found in Egypt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.