Shahid or Shahed ( ') is a
given name
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translating to '
Witness
In law, a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, either oral or written, of what they know or claim to know.
A witness might be compelled to provide testimony in court, before a grand jur ...
' in Arabic and 'Beloved' in Persian, mostly found in
South Asia
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.
It is derived from the root (cf.
Shahada).
["One who tells, or gives information of, what he has witnessed, or seen or beheld with his eye; one who declares what he know ��a witness, as meaning one who gives testimony, or evidence; who bears witness; ��'The witness'' against those to whom he has been sent." Lane, '' Arabic-English Lexicon'' (1863) I.1611. ]
Shahid is a male Muslim name and Arabic in origin. The name is common in Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
It is not to be confused with a different word, a religious term, written and pronounced differently,
Shahid
''Shahid'' ( , , ) denotes a martyr in Islam. The word is used frequently in the Quran in the generic sense of "witness" but only once in the sense of "martyr" (i.e. one who dies for his faith); the latter sense acq ...
(, plural ''Å¡uhadÄ'', female ), meaning 'martyr'.
People named Shahid
Given name
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Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (born 1958), politician and former Prime Minister of Pakistan
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Shahid Afridi (born 1980), Pakistani cricketer
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Shahid Ahmed (born 1988), Pakistani footballer
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Shahid Ahmed (cricketer) (born 1975), cricket player
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Shahid Azmi (1977-2010), Indian lawyer and human rights activist
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Shaheed Kader, Indian film director
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Shahid Kapoor (born 1981), Bollywood actor
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Shahid Khan (disambiguation), multiple people
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Shaheed Latif (1913–1967), Indian film producer
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Shahid Parvez Khan (born 1955), Indian sitar player
*Shaied Nazir (born 1980), convicted of the racially motivated
murder of Ross Parker
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Shahid Mahmood (1939–2020), Pakistani cricketer
Stage name
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Shahid (actor) (born 1950), Pakistani actor active from 1971 to 1998
Surname
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Abdulla Shahid (born 1962), Maldivian MP
*Imran Shahid, ringleader of gang responsible for the racially motivated
murder of Kriss Donald in Scotland
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Leila Shahid (born 1949), Palestinian diplomat
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Mohammed Shahid (1960-2016), Indian
field hockey
Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
player
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Munib Shahid (1908-1973), Chairman of Hematology and Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine of the American University of Beirut
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Parvez Ahmed Shahid (born 1948), Pakistani retired banker
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Rashid Shaheed (born 1998), American football player
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Serene Husseini Shahid (1920-2008), writer, promoter of Palestinian costumes.
*Zeeshan Shahid, convicted of the racially motivated
murder of Kriss Donald in Scotland
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Ash-Shakur Nafi-Shahid Stevenson aka
Shakur Stevenson (born 1997), two time unified world champion and Olympic silver medalist.
Legendary figures
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Shahid ibn Jarr (Shehid ibn Jerr), the name for
Seth in
Yazidism
See also
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Shahidi (surname)
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Shahida (feminine name)
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Shahid (disambiguation), also covers ''Shaheed''
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All pages beginning with Shaheed
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All pages beginning with Shahid
Notes
References
{{given name, type=both
Arabic-language surnames
Arabic-language masculine given names
Masculine given names
Bengali Muslim surnames