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Knock With Your Name

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Where we meet with culture, questions, and craft.

Knock with your name — from any language. Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Irish, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, and more. If we know it, you get a plain-English meaning, where it comes from, and the name in its own script when there is a real one. Tap Hear it to hear it said. We only write what is well known. If we don’t have it, we say so.

Guests can ask about the names set out front. The rest of the list is inside the club.

Arabic

Shady

Also Shadi

Recorded voice

In its own script

  • Arabic

    شادي

Meaning

One who sings.

Origin

Arabic shadi, from shada, to sing. One who sings. An ordinary Egyptian given name.

One who sings. In Egypt that is an ordinary, bright name.