شیدا

From Aramaic שידא (šēḏā) or Classical Syriac ܫܐܕܐ (šēḏā, “demon”), from Akkadian 𒀭𒆘 (šēdum, “a protective deity”).

For the semantic shift, compare مجنون (majnun, “mad, insane; enamored”), which is from جن (jinn, “demon”).

شیدا • (šeydâ) (comparative شیداتَر (šeydâ-tar), superlative شیداتَرین (šeydâ-tarin))

1. (archaic) mad, insane
2. (poetic) enamored, enamoured

• شیدایی (šeydâyi)
• شیدایانه (šeydâyâne)

شیدا • (šeydâ) (plural شیدایان (šeydâyân))

1. (poetic) lover

• مجنون (majnun)

شیدا • (šeydâ)

1. a female given name, Sheyda, Shayda, or Sheida
2. a surname

• → Urdu: شیدا (śaidā)

• “šd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

Borrowed from Classical Persian شیدا (šaydā, “mad, insane; enamored”).

For the semantic sense of "mad, crazy; enamored, infatuated", compare دیوانہ (dīvāna). Both stemming from etymological meanings of "demonic" and "crazy", but being poetically used for "love" and "infatuation", especially in Sufi mysticism.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃɛː.d̪ɑː/, /ʃeː.d̪ɑː/

شیدا • (śaidā) ?

1. enamored, infatuated; deeply in love
2. mad, crazy

شیدا • (śaidā) ?

1. lover

   میری شیدا نے مجھے ہونٹوں پر بوسہ دیا

   merī śaidā ne mujhe honṭõ par bosa diyā

   my lover kissed me on the lips

• شَیدائی (śaidā'ī, “insanity; infatuation”)
• والَہ و شَیدا (vāla-o-śaidā, “head over heels”)

• “شیدا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شیدا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “شیدا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “شیدا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.