شهد

See also: شہد‎ and ش ه د‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ش ه د‎ (š-h-d).

Verb

شَهِدَ • (šahida) I, non-past يَشْهَدُ‎‎ (yašhadu)

  1. to witness, to be a witness
  2. to experience personally, to see with one’s own eyes
  3. to be present, to attend, to be around
  4. to see
Conjugation
References
  • Wehr, Hans (1976), “شهد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Verb

شَهِدَ • (šahida) I, non-past يَشْهَدُ‎‎ (yašhadu)

  1. to testify, to bear witness, to give testimony, to give evidence
  2. to attest, to confirm, to certify
  3. to witness (a signature)
  4. to acknowledge, to adjudge
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
  • Wehr, Hans (1976), “شهد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Etymology 2

From ش ه د‎ (š-h-d), uncertain sense, perhaps from likening the honeycombs to the graves of martyrs or the swarming of people at such shrines like bees swarm around a hive; see مشهد. Otherwise from the mucus that covers a fetus at birth; the meaning of birth is extended from the "being around" or "being present" of verb form I.[1]

Noun

شَهْد or شُهْد • (šahd or šuhd) m (plural شِهَاد‎ (šihād))

  1. honey especially not extracted from the honeycomb
  2. honeycomb
  3. melon, cantaloupe
  4. nectar
  5. (figuratively) anything pleasant
  6. (figuratively, from stickiness) semen, menstruation
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 3

Adjective

شُهَّد • (šuhhad) m pl

  1. masculine plural of شَاهِد‎ (šāhid)

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic شَهْد‎ (šahd)

Noun

شهد • (šahd)

  1. honey

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ Lane, Edward William (1863), “شهد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1609-1611, meaning a place of assembling in which numerous people are present, mucus like substance on the head of camels at birth, the mark of membrane left after birthing.
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