67%RatingSave Gender Feminine & Masculine Usage Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Semitic Mythology Scripts شمس(Arabic, Persian, Urdu) Pronounced Pron. /ˈʃams/(Arabic) /ˈʃəms/(Urdu) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Means "sun" in Arabic. This was the name of a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess of the sun, identified with the Akkadian sun god Shamash (whose name is related) and the northern Arabian goddess Nuha. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details RootshamsOther Languages & CulturesSamson(Biblical) Sampson(Biblical Greek) Shimshon(Biblical Hebrew) Samson(Biblical Latin) Samson(English) Samson(French) Shimshon(Hebrew) Categories celestial, deities, Genshin Impact characters, goddesses, mythology, solar deities, sun