girl name · Source-indexed record
Shilan
شيلان
Shilan is a Kurdish and Persian name for girls that means jujube, a type of tree also known as red date, Chinese date. In classical Persian it means food, lunch, and in Turkic it means feast.
- Arabic spelling
- شيلان
- Pronunciation
- SHEE-lahnAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- PersianSource-stated
- Gender
- girl
- First letter
- S
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Shilan
Shilan is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a female name. The source records its meaning as “Shilan is a Kurdish and Persian name for girls that means jujube, a type of tree also known as red date, Chinese date. In classical Persian it means food, lunch, and in Turkic it means feast.”. Its origin label is stated directly in the source text. 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.