Etymology

shahed

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Today it means: A military drone developed by the Iranian aviation company Shahed Aviation Industries. Full definition →

Iranian Persian شاهِد ← Arabic شَاهِد ← Russian Шахед
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The story

  1. Russian · borrowed fromШахед
  2. Arabic · derived fromشَاهِد“witness”
  3. Iranian Persian · borrowed fromشاهِد“witness”
  4. English todayShahed

From modern Iranian Persian شاهِد (šâhed, “witness”), from Arabic شَاهِد (šāhid, “witness”); or from Russian Шахед (Šaxed).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.