Shirin (شیرین) is the Persian word for "sweet." The romance of Khosrow and Shirin by the 12th-century poet Nizami is one of the great Persian love stories.
Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), the Iranian lawyer and human rights activist, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 — the first Muslim woman to do so.
Shirin reduces to eight — the number of Persian sweetness.