شاهد

• IPA^(key): /ʃaː.ha.da/

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شَاهَدَ • (šāhada) III, non-past يُشَاهِدُ‎ (yušāhidu)

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
• → Persian: شاهد
  • → Bashkir: шаһит (şahit)
  • → Hindustani: śāhid

    Hindi: शाहिद (śāhid)

    Urdu: شاہد

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

    Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਾਹਦ (śāhad)

    Shahmukhi script: شاہد (śāhid)

  • → Uzbek: shohid
  • → Ottoman Turkish: شاهد
    • Turkish: şahit

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

From Arabic شَاهِد (šāhid).

شاهد • (şahid)

1. witness

• شاهدلك (şahidlik, “testimony”)

• Turkish: şahit

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1112
• https://books.google.com/books?id=BpVFAAAAcAAJ page 831

From Arabic شَاهِد (šāhid).

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑˈhed/

شاهد • (šâhéd) m (plural اشهاد)

1. witness

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

شاهد • (šâhed) (plural شاهدان (šâhedân) or شاهدها (šâhed-hâ) 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]‎:

        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]‎:

        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)
• → Hindustani: śāhid

  Hindi: शाहिद (śāhid)

  Urdu: شاہد

• → 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)}