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Sahir
ساحرSay it SAA-hir
- Meaning today
- Magician, enchanting, wakeful
- Original meaning
- "an enchanter; figuratively enchanting, also skilful or clever" Lane, p. 1317–1318
- Say it
- SAA-hir
- Written
- ساحر
- Other spellings
- Saahir
Sahir
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Sahir meaning
Sahir (ساحر) is a Muslim boy's name of Arabic origin.
An enchanter; figuratively enchanting, also skilful or clever
Also used to mean: magician, wakeful
Sahir (ساحر) is the Arabic sāḥir, "an enchanter", from siḥr, "enchantment". Lane's lexicon gives it for one who practises enchantment and also in softer, figurative senses: an "enchanting eye" is ʿayn sāḥira, and the word can mean knowing or skilful. Some name lists give "wakeful" instead; that sense belongs to a different Arabic word, sāhir (ساهر), one who stays awake at night, which sounds almost the same. In India the name is famous through the Urdu poet and film lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi, who took it as his pen name.
Source: Lane, An Arabic–English Lexicon (1863–93), Book I, Part 4, p. 1317–1318 · entry sāḥir (سَاحِرٌ), root s-ḥ-r · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Lane, Arabic–English Lexicon, sāḥir, Book I p. 1317–1318 · Lane, Arabic–English Lexicon, sāhir, Book I p. 1452 · Wikipedia, Sahir Ludhianvi
Famous namesakes
- Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi film lyricist
Spellings
Sahir · Saahir