Scheherazade

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A female given name from Persian.
• fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.

Origin

• Borrowed from German Scheherazade, from Russian Шехераза́да, from Persian شهرازاد, alternative form of شهرزاد, from شهر + زاد.
  Popularized by the fictional character below.