Shahriyar ( fa, شهریار), also spelled as ''Sharyar, Sheryar'', ''Shariyar'', ''Shahryar'', ''Schahryar'', ''Shahriar'', ''Shariar'', ''Sheharyar'', ''Shaheryar'', ''Shaharyar'', ''Shehreyar'', or ''Shehiryar,'' and pronounced /sha ree YAAR/, is originally a Persian name used as one of highest titles of nobility, which is equal to 'King' or 'Grand Duke'. In fact, Shahryar consists of two words, '
Shahr
' (city) and 'Yar/Yār
' (friend), leading the name to be sometimes translated as "the city of friend". Therefore, the name may have two meanings in the
Persian language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken a ...
. For example, here are some lines of Persian poetry:
Ferdowsi:
The king told the Iranian people ()
The bad time has passed ()
Hafez
Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمسالدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "Hafiz", ...
:
This land was the city of friends and the origin of kind people ()
What happened to the kings and kindness? ()
Geography
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Shahriar, a city in Tehran Province, Iran
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Shahriar County, a county in Tehran Province
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Shahriar, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
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Shahriar, Fars, a village in Fars Province, Iran
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Shahriar-e Tavakkoli, a village in Fars Province, Iran
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Shahriar, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
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Robat Karim
Robat Karim ( fa, رباطكريم, also Romanized as Robāţ Karīm; formerly known as Shahriar and Shahryār) is a city in and capital of Robat Karim County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 62,937, in 16,675 famili ...
, a city in Tehran Province, formerly called Shahriyar
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Shagriar (disambiguation), various towns in Armenia
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Shahryar (crater), a crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus
People
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Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Mohammed Hussein Behjet, who uses the pen name Shahriar
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Ishaq Shahryar, the Afghan ambassador to the United States
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Shahriyar (son of Khosrow II) Shahriyar (also spelled Shahryar) was a Sasanian prince—he was the son of Khosrow II (r. 590-628) and his Christian queen Shirin. In 628, a son of Khosrow II, Kavadh II, staged a ''coup d'état'' against his father, and thereafter had all his brot ...
, Sassanid prince and the father of Yazdegerd III, the last king of the Sassanid Persia
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Shahryar (Mughal prince), younger brother of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov ( az, Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. he is ranked No. 1 in Azerbaijan and No. 13 in the world. ...
, Azerbaijani chess player
* Shahryar, pen name of
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
Akhlaq Mohammad Khan (16 June 1936 – 13 February 2012), better known by his '' takhallus'' Shahryar'','' was an Indian academician, and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India. As a Hindi film lyricist, he is best known for his lyrics in ''Gaman'' (197 ...
(1936–2012), Urdu poet, academic, and Bollywood lyricist
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Shahryar Khan
Shahryar Mohammad Khan ( ur, شہریار محمد خان; born 12 March 1934) is a former career Pakistan diplomat who became Foreign Secretary of Pakistan in 1990, and remained so until his retirement from service in 1994. He later served as ...
, Pakistani former diplomat
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Shahriar Shafiq, assassinated Iranian navy officer and Ashraf Pahlavi's son
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Shahriar Shahriari, American mathematician and professor at
Pomona College
Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became t ...
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Meher Baba
Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age. A major spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of ...
(born Merwan Sheriar Irani, 1894–1969), Indian spiritual leader
Fictional characters
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Shahryar, the Sassanid king in ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights''
See also
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Shahriar (disambiguation)
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Persian masculine given names