شاهد

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.ha.da/

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شَاهَدَ • (šāhada) III (non-past يُشَاهِدُ (yušāhidu), verbal noun مُشَاهَدَة (mušāhada))

1. to see (with one’s own eyes), to view, to inspect, to watch, to observe, to witness

   شَاهَدْتُ كَثِيرًا مِنَ ٱلْأَجَانِبَ هُنَاكَ.

   šāhadtu kaṯīran mina l-ʔajāniba hunāka.

   I saw many foreigners there.

Derived from the active participle of the verb شَهِدَ (šahida).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.hid/

شَاهِد • (šāhid) m pers (plural شُهُود (šuhūd) or شَاهِدُونَ (šāhidūna) or أَشْهَاد (ʔašhād) or شُهَّد (šuhhad), feminine شَاهِدَة (šāhida))

1. witness, one giving evidence

   Synonym: شَهِيد (šahīd)

   شَاهِد عِيَان ― šāhid ʕiyān ― eyewitness

2. notary public

• → Azerbaijani: şahid
• → Ottoman Turkish: شاهد
  • Turkish: şahit
• → Persian: شاهد
  • → Bashkir: шаһит (şahit)
  • → English: Shahed, Shahid
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: शाहिद (śāhid)

    Urdu: شاہد (śāhid)

  • → Pashto: شاهد (šāhéd)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਾਹਦ (śāhad)

    Shahmukhi script: شاہد (śāhid)

  • → Uzbek: shohid
• → Turkmen: şaýat
• → Uyghur: شاھىت (shahit)

شَاهِد • (šāhid) m npers (plural شَوَاهِد (šawāhid))

1. evidence, piece of evidence
2. attestation
3. textual evidence
4. testimony
5. upright, oblong tombstone
6. forefinger, index finger

Borrowed from Arabic شَاهِد (šāhid, “witness”).

شاهد • (şâhid) (definite accusative شاهدی (şâhidi), plural شهود (şühud) or شواهد (şevâhid))

1. witness, attester, one who sees or has personal knowledge of something

   Synonyms: طانق (tanık, danık), كواه (güvâh)

• Turkish: şahit

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “شاهد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 134
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4415
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şâhid”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1168
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 717
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Testis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1668
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شاهد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2761
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şahit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1112

From Arabic شَاهِد (šāhid).

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑˈhed/

شاهد • (šâhéd) m (plural اشهاد)

1. witness

Borrowed from Arabic شاهِد (šāhid, “witness”).

شاهد • (šâhed) (plural شاهدان, or شاهدها, or شاهدین (šâhedin))

1. A human:
   1. witness; eyewitness; testifier

      Synonym: گواه (govâh)

      • c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Rubaʿī 44”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī]‎^[6]:

        قاضی به دو شاهد بدهد فتوی شرع
        در مذهب عشق شاهدی بس باشد

        qāzī ba du šāhid bidahad fatwā-yi šar'
        dar mazhab-i išq šāhidē bas bāšad

        The qadi gives the Holy Law's fatwa on [the word of] two witnesses;
        In the doctrine of love, one beloved should be enough.

        (Classical Persian transliteration.)
        (The verse involves a pun between senses 1 and 3, based on the fact that Islamic law requires at least two witnesses in all matters.)

   2. (archaic, literature) beauty; beautiful person; the beloved (so beautiful that their physical beauty illuminates or "testifies" to the beauty of God)

      Synonyms: بت (bot), صنم (sanam), خوب (xub), دلبر (delbar), جانان (jânân)

      • c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Rubaʿī 44”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī]‎^[7]:

        قاضی به دو شاهد بدهد فتوی شرع
        در مذهب عشق شاهدی بس باشد

        qāzī ba du šāhid bidahad fatwā-yi šar'
        dar mazhab-i išq šāhidē bas bāšad

        The qadi gives the Holy Law's fatwa on [the word of] two witnesses;
        In the doctrine of love, one beloved should be enough.

        (Classical Persian transliteration.)
        (The verse involves a pun between senses 1 and 3, based on the fact that Islamic law requires at least two witnesses in all matters.)

شاهد • (šâhed) (plural شواهد (šavâhed))

1. A non-human:
   1. example; exemplary quotation (e.g. in a dictionary)

      Synonym: مثال (mesâl)

   2. (pluralia tantum) evidence; always as the plural شواهد.

      شواهد کافی نیست. ― šavâhed kâfi nist. ― The evidence is insufficient.

• → Bashkir: шаһит (şahit)
• → English: Shahed, Shahid
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शाहिद (śāhid)

  Urdu: شاہد (śāhid)

• → Pashto: شاهد (šāhéd)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਾਹਦ (śāhad)

  Shahmukhi script: شاہد (śāhid)

• → Uzbek: shohid

شاهد • (šâhed)

1. (obsolete) beautiful, pleasant

   Synonyms: زیبا (zibâ), خوش (xoš), قشنگ (qašang), نیک (nik)

From Arabic شَاهَدَ (šāhada).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.had/, [ˈʃæː.had]

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شاهد • (šāhad) III (present بشاهد (bišāhed))

1. (formal) to watch, to view

   Synonym: حضر (ḥiḍir)

From Arabic شَاهِد (šāhid).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.hid/, [ˈʃæː.hɪd]

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شاهد • (šāhed) m (plural شهود (šhūd))

1. witness

   شاهد عيان ― šāhed ʕayān ― eyewitness

2. index finger, forefinger

• (Fingers) أصابع (ʔaṣābeʕ); الأصبع الكبير (il-ʔuṣbaʕ li-kbīr, “thumb”), شاهد (šāhed, “index finger”), الأصبع النصاني (il-ʔuṣbaʕ in-nuṣṣāni, “the middle finger”), بنصر (bonṣor, “ring finger”), خنصر (ḵonṣor, “little finger”), ^{(Category: ajp:Fingers)}