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scheherazade

/ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables
scheherazade
IPA
/ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/
30
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A female given name from Persian.

name

A fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Scheherazade, from Russian Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda), from Classical Persian شَهْرَازَاد (šahrāzād), alternative form of شَهْرْزَاد (šahrzād); either a reborrowing from Arabic شَهْرْزَاد (šahrzād) 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. Given name popularized by the fictional character below.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Scheherazade, Шехераза́да, شَهْرَازَاد, شَهْرْزَاد, *čihrāzād⁠

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/
  • British English: /ʃəˌhɛɹəˈzɑːd(ə)/

Inflected Forms

Scheherezade (alternative) Shahrazad (alternative) Shahrzad (alternative) Sheherazade (alternative)

Derived Forms

Scheherazadean

Rhymes With

ahmad jihad facade promenade tod riyadh charade esplanade plod saccade roulade salade

Questions

How do you pronounce scheherazade?
The recorded pronunciation is /ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/.
What does scheherazade mean?
A female given name from Persian.
Where does scheherazade come from?
It is traced to German.

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