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 and exonym, endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of th ...
. 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 Shiraz, Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمسالدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "H ...
:
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
Shahriar County ( fa, شهرستان شهریار) is located in Tehran province, Iran. The capital of the county is Shahriar. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off to form Malar ...
, a county in Tehran Province
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Shahriar, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
Shahriar ( fa, شهريار, also Romanized as Shahrīār and Shahryār) is a village in Falard Rural District, Falard District, Lordegan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,123, in 438 famili ...
, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
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Shahriar, Fars
Shahriar ( fa, شهريار, also Romanized as Shahrīār) is a village in Zarqan Rural District, Zarqan District, Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a c ...
, a village in Fars Province, Iran
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Shahriar-e Tavakkoli
Tavakkolabad-e Markazi ( fa, توكل ابادمركزي, also Romanized as Tavakkolābād-e Markazī; also known as Shahrīār-e Tavakkolī and Tavakkolābād) is a village in Doshman Ziari Rural District, Doshman Ziari District, Mamasani County, ...
, a village in Fars Province, Iran
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Shahriar, Lorestan
Shahriar ( fa, شهريار, also Romanized as Shahrīār, Shahriyar, and Shahryār) is a village in Borborud-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Aligudarz County, Lorestan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic ...
, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
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Robat Karim, a city in Tehran Province, formerly called Shahriyar
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Shagriar (disambiguation) Shagriar may refer to:
* Nalbandyan, Armenia, formerly Mets Shagriar ("Big Shagriar")
* Pokr Shagriar, Armenia, ("Little Shagriar")
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