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Scheherazade
shuh-heh-ruh-ZAHD
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1
A female given name of Persian origin.
"She named her novel's heroine Scheherazade."
2
The storyteller wife of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights, who postpones her execution by telling nightly tales.
"Scheherazade kept the king spellbound with her endless stories."
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Etymology
From Classical Persian شَهْرَازَاد (šahrāzād), possibly from Middle Persian elements meaning "of noble lineage."