Shahryar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Name of the fictional Persian Sassanid King of kings who is told stories by his wife, Scheherazade, to delay her execution.

Word forms

Shahryar

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَهْرْیَار (šahryār).

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