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Persian
"noble lineage"
Scheherazade -- or Sheherazade --is a legendary Persian queen immortalized as the narrator of all one thousand stories in the One Thousand and One Nights . Her story is even more remarkable than the…
Arabic
"pretty"
One of many similarly pretty names, this one identifiable as a female form of the familiar Shaquille.
"coward"
Despite its disagreeable meaning, this name has a distinctive literary heritage: the eminent Kiswahili writer Shabaan Roberts is called the Shakespeare of East Africa.
Spelling variation of Shakir; Arabic
"thankful"
Shaquille O'Neal came almost as close as he could to a Junior when he selected this name for his son.
"peace through faith"
A name with considerable history, as the celebrated sultan of Egypt and Syria in the time of the Crusades.
"lucky, happy"
A popular name in the Arab community, with an upbeat meaning.
Arabic place-name
This romantic name of a city in Yemen was chosen for her son by supermodel Liya Kebede.