Shahriyar
Shahriyar (Template:Lang-fa), also spelled as Sharyar, Sheryar, Shariyar, Shahryar, Schahryar, Shahriar, Shahria, Shariar, Sheharyar, Shaheryar, Shaharyar, Shehreyar, or Shehiryar, and pronounced /sha ree YAAR/, is originally a Persian male name. It is used as one of the highest titles of nobility that 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 the friend". Therefore, the name may have two different meanings in the Persian language. For example, here are some lines of Persian poetry:
The king told the Iranian people (به ایرانیان گفت پس شهریار)
The bad time has passed (که بر ما سر آمد بدِ روزگار)
This land was the city of friends and the origin of kind people (شهر یاران بود و خاک مهربانان این دیار)
What happened to the kings and kindness? (مهربانی کِی سر آمد شهریاران را چه شد؟)
Geography
- Shahriar, a city in Tehran Province, Iran
- Shahriar County, a county in Tehran Province
- Shahriar, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
- Shahriar, Fars, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Shahriar-e Tavakkoli, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Shahriar, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
- Robat Karim, a city in Tehran Province, formerly called Shahriyar
- Shagriar (disambiguation), various towns in Armenia
- Shahryar (crater), a crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus
People
- Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Mohammed Hussein Behjet, who uses the pen name Shahriar
- Ishaq Shahryar, the Afghan ambassador to the United States
- Shahriyar (son of Khosrow II), Sassanid prince and the father of Yazdegerd III, the last king of the Sassanid Persia
- Shahryar (Mughal prince), younger brother of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Azerbaijani chess player
- Shahryar Khan, Pakistani former diplomat
- Shahriar Shafiq, assassinated Iranian navy officer and Ashraf Pahlavi's son
- Shahriar Shahriari, American mathematician and professor at Pomona College
Fictional characters
- Shahryar, the Sassanid king in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
See also
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