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  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic faṛhāt ‘joys’, plural of Arabic farạh ‘happiness’, ‘joy’ (see Farah), or from Persian faerhaet ‘grandeur’, ‘splendor’, ‘status’. In Persian literature, Farhād is the name of a stonemason who rivals King Khusrau for the love of the Armenian princess Shīrīn.