Scheherazade

• Scheherezade
• Shahrazad
• Shahrzad (as a given name)
• Sheherazade

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃəˌhɛɹəˈzɑːd(ə)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd, -ɑːdə

Scheherazade

1. A female given name from Persian.
2. A fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.

• Scheherazadean

• “Scheherazade”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Scheherazade, Scheherezade, Shahrazad, Shahrzad, Sheherazade at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

• Scheherasade, Scheherezade

Borrowed from Russian Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda), from Persian شهرازاد (šahrâzâd), alternative form of شهرزاد (šahrzâd, literally “child of the city”), from شهر (šahr, “city”) + ـزاد (-zâd, “child of”).
The noun is a reference to the fictional character.

• IPA^(key): /ʃəˌheːʁaˈzaːdə/

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• Rhymes: -aːdə
• Hyphenation: Sche‧he‧ra‧za‧de

Scheherazade f (genitive Scheherazades or Scheherazade)

1. a female given name
2. Scheherazade (fictional character)

Scheherazade f (genitive Scheherazade, plural Scheherazaden)

1. a female storyteller or narrator of fairy tales

   Synonyms: Geschichtenerzählerin, Märchenerzählerin

• “Scheherazade” in Duden online