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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Its called Shahid, the e is i in our Indian pronounciation.
Shahid is a fairly common name among urdu speaking people in the sub continent.
Shahid Afridi, the cricketer. Im sure you would have heard the name. There is a actor called Shahid Kapoor as well.
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