TIL… Shahed means Witness in Farsi, a reasonable name for a drone. I’d mistakenly assumed it meant martyr (shaheed, in Urdu too) and read too much into the kamikaze drone headlines
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I don’t think shahed made it to Urdu/Hindi. The word I know is gawah, which is witness in a courtroom sense.
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I'm sure the NATO reporting name will be something fun like "Flying Carpet" or something.
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Amitav Ghosh has an essay on the life of Agha Shahid Ali where Sháhid/Shahīd wordplay is quite central to the piece.
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