Shams

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Gender Feminine & Masculine
Usage Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Semitic Mythology
Scripts شمس(Arabic, Persian, Urdu)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈʃams/(Arabic) /ˈʃəms/(Urdu)

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.