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Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Kurdish
Scripts دلشاد(Kurdish Sorani)
Pronounced Pron. DLshad, Dilshad  [key]

Meaning & History

it's a Kurdish name, mainly use as given name for male, the name includes two fraces, the first is /DL/ or /dil/ which means 'heart', and the second part is an adjective 'shad' meaning 'happy', both together means 'happy heart'.
The letter /L/ in the name DLshad pronounced stronglly by the Kurdish speakers who live in the east of the Lower Zab river in both Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistan, whilt the same letter /L/ is pronounced in the rest of Kurdistan to the west of the Lower Zab in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well in Kurdistan Syria and Turkey. As well the name has the same meaning in Persian and its pronounce with slight /L/.
Added 3/24/2015 by Dlshad Marf
Edited 2/12/2020 by Mike C