Shams
Shams is the Arabic word for "sun" (شمس).
The word may refer to:
Arabic use
- see also Al-Shams
- Ain Shams University, a university located in Cairo, Egypt
- Al-Shams (newspaper), Libyan government newspaper till 2011
- Ash-Shams, the 91st surah of the Quran
- Shams, a defunct Saudi newspaper
- Shams Abu Dhabi, a real estate development on Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Shams solar power station, a planned concentrating solar power station in the United Arab Emirates
- Shamss Ensemble, music group performing Iranian and Sufi music
People
- The Arabic word is a common male (and a rare female) given name in African, Middle Eastern and a few South Asian countries. The name may refer to:
- Shams Badran, Egyptian military officer
- Shams al-Baroudi, Egyptian actress
- Shams Langeroodi, contemporary Iranian poet
- Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, an alternate name for Iltutmish, the third Muslim Turkic sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi
- Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Shah of Iran, the last king of the Iranian monarchy
- Shams Tabrizi, an Iranian Sufi mystic
- Ibrahim Shams, Egyptian Olympic weightlifter
- Shams (singer), a Saudi-Kuwaiti singer
Places
- Ain Shams, neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt
- Jebel Shams, a mountain in Oman
- Majdal Shams, a village in the Golan Heights
- Shams-e Bijar, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
English use
- The word also has an English meaning, as the plural of sham, a synonym for hoax or fraud. It may also refer to:
- The Shams, an all-female folk pop trio from New York
- Shamrock Rovers F.C., a football club playing in the League of Ireland
- Term for a kind of decorative pillow
See also
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