boy name · Source-indexed record
Shaheed
شهيد
Present, witness, martyr in the cause of Islam and as such held in very high esteem and honour.
- Arabic spelling
- شهيد
- Pronunciation
- shah-HEEDAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- ArabicLinguistic inference
- Gender
- boy
- First letter
- S
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Shaheed
Shaheed is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a male name. The source records its meaning as “Present, witness, martyr in the cause of Islam and as such held in very high esteem and honour.”. Its origin label is inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Its reader-friendly phonetic spelling is generated deterministically from the published transliteration and should be reviewed for names with complex or region-specific pronunciation.
Meaning and Arabic spelling are sourced from the Muslim Names Dataset or, where provided, the record-specific provenance URL. Origin labels are source-stated where available or transparently inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Phonetic respellings are generated reading guides, not native-speaker recordings. See Sources & methodology for data limitations.