Jawed Explained

Jawed
Pronunciation:pronounced as /ˈdʒaːʋɛːd/
Gender:masculine
Meaning:eternal
Region:Iran

Jawed (Persian: جاويد); Javed, Javid (Urdu: جاويد); Jawed, Javed (Panjabi; Punjabi: ਜਾਵੇਦ), Javed, Zaved (Bengali: জাভেদ) a masculine given name of Persian origin meaning of "eternal, immortal"[1] and is also the word for "eternity".

The name is from Modern Persian Persian: جاود|rtl=yes "eternal". The word continues Middle Persian jāwēd, from an Old Persian *yāvaitat, ultimately from *yauu-, Iranian oblique stem of

"age, duration", cognate with Greek αἰών "eon".[2]

It is not a traditional given name; it was chosen as a pseudonym by Huseyn Javid (Huseyn Abdulla oglu Rasizadeh) in the early 20th century. The given name became popular among Indian Muslims from about the 1940s, and remains a popular name for baby boys in Pakistan.

List of people with this given name

Pseudonym

Use as a surname

Pakistan

See also: Pakistani name. There is no tradition of Pakistani surnames.Jawed is not one of the traditional family names, but it may be chosen as "secondary" name, and it may have been picked as "surname" by expatriates in western countries.

British Pakistani
Iran

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Javed-name-meaning.ashx Name History and Origin for Javed
  2. Martin Schwartz, 'Pouruchista’s Gathic Wedding and the Teleological Composition of the Gathas', in: Exegisti Monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams (2009),p. 441, fn 24.