شهرزاد

Either from Middle Persian *čihrāzād⁠ (“noble lineage”) or from Classical Persian شَهْرْزَاد (šahrzād, “child of the city”).

•  IPA^(key): /ʃah.ra.zaːd/

شَهْرَزَاد • (šahrazād) f

1. a female given name, Shahrazad, from Persian
2. Scheherazade, a character in One Thousand and One Nights

From Arabic شهرزاد (šahrazād), from Middle Persian *čihrāzād⁠, equivalent to New Persian چهر (čihr / čehr, “lineage”) +‎ آزاد (āzād / âzâd, “noble”), or a compound of شهر (šahr, “city”) +‎ زاد (zād / zâd, “child of”), in which case there was likely no reborrowing through Arabic involved.

شهرزاد • (šahrzād / šahrzâd) (Tajik spelling Шаҳрзод)

1. a female given name, Shahrzad
2. Scheherazade, a character in One Thousand and One Nights

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शहरज़ाद (śaharzād)

  Urdu: شَہْرْزَاد (śahrzād)

• → Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹਿਰਜ਼ਾਦ (śahirzād)
• → Russian: Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda)
  • → German: Scheherazade
    • → English: Scheherazade