Gulshat

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Tatar (Russia — Republic of Tatarstan)

Meaning

a Tatar feminine compound name built on gul (flower, rose — from Persian gül, the rose that is the supreme symbol of beauty in Persian poetic tradition) and shat (happiness, joy — a Tatar word related to the Arabic-Persian shádi meaning joy, festivity); Gulshat means joyful flower or the flower of happiness — a name combining the beauty of the flower with the quality of joy; gul-compound names are the single largest category of Tatar feminine names, reflecting both the deep Persian cultural influence on Tatar literary and cultural life through centuries of Volga Bulgaria's and Kazan Khanate's cultural connection to the Persianate Islamic world, and the fundamental Turkic love of flower imagery for feminine naming; Gulshat is common throughout Tatarstan and among Bashkir and other Volga Turkic communities

Gender

female

Also spelled

Gülshat, Gulshat