Shahaf ( he, שחף) is a common Israeli unisex given name. It is seagull in Hebrew, but it also might mean being free, dreamer, power and love of the sea. It was originally masculine, however, in recent years, the name has been given to girls to support the feminist movement.

As a last name

Nahum Shahaf Nahum Shahaf ( he, נחום שחף) is an Israeli physicist who specializes in ballistics and film technology. Biography Nahum Shahaf earned a Master of Physics degree from Bar-Ilan University in 1977. Throughout most of the 1980s, he worked on u ...

, an Israeli physicist * Catherine Margaret Shachaf, a biologist and instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine

Other uses

Seagull Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and only distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, m ...

, a sea bird.

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