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The word usually retains a similar or broader meaning, [4] but has been recently adopted in Modern Hebrew and Israeli English (Hebrew: שהיד, romanized: Shahid, a loanword from Palestinian Arabic) with a different meaning. According to Haaretz the word "Shahid" has become "synonymous" with "terrorist" among Hebrew speakers in Israel. [22]
Shahid or Shahed (Arabic: شاهد šāhid) is a given name translating to 'Witness' in Arabic and 'Beloved' in Persian, mostly found in South Asia. It is derived from the root š-h-d [1] (c.f. Shahada). [2] Shahid is a male Muslim name and Arabic in origin. The name is common in Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Martyr (The same term is used in Islamic terminology for the "martyrs of Islam", but the meaning is different) literal meaning of the word shahid is "witness" i.e. witness of god/believer in God. Sim‘ānu l-Ghayūr (سِمْعَانُ الْغَيُور) Simon the Zealot Sim‘ānu Butrus (سِمْعَانُ بطرس) Simon Peter
Shahid is an alternate spelling for shaheed, a word that means "male martyr" in Arabic. The word is used in Islam and some non-Muslim communities. Shahid or Shaheed may also refer to:
The Meta Oversight Board reached similar conclusions in its report on Tuesday, finding Meta's rules on "shaheed" failed to account for the word's variety of meanings and resulted in the removal of ...
Istishhad (Arabic: اِسْتِشْهَادٌ, romanized: istišhād) is the Arabic word for "martyrdom", "death of a martyr", or (in some contexts) "heroic death". [1] [2] Martyrs are given the honorific shaheed. [3] The word derives from the root shahida (Arabic: شهد), meaning "to witness". Traditionally martyrdom has an exalted place in ...
The oversight board, which is funded by Meta but operates independently, started its review last year because the word accounted for more content removals on the company's platforms than any other ...
Shahid (given name) Shahidi ( Persian : شهیدی ) is a common surname in Iran , Afghanistan and Tajikistan . Like the given name Shahid , it is a Muslim theophoric name , from Aš-Šāhid ( الشهيد ), one of the 99 names of God in the Qur'an .