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Scheherazade
Character from Arabian Nights
For other uses, see Scheherazade (disambiguation).
Fictional character
| Scheherazadeشهرزاد | |
|---|---|
Scheherazade, 19th century painting by Sophie Anderson | |
| Portrayed by | Mili Avital, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Claude Jade, Anna Karina, María Montez, Cyrine Abdelnour, Sulaf Fawakherji, Annette Haven, Meredith Stepien, Damini Kanwal Shetty |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Queen consort |
| Family | |
| Spouse | Shahryar |
| Children | 3 sons and possibly 1 daughter |
| Other names | Shahrazad, Shahrzad |
Scheherazade ()[1] is a major character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.
Name
According to modern scholarship, the name Scheherazade derives from the Middle Persian name Čīhrāzād, which is composed of the words čīhr ('lineage') and āzād ('noble, exalted').[2][3][4] The earliest forms of Schehe