Sudabeh is from the Persian سودابه — sud (good fortune, profit) + Persian feminine ending. A modern American baby name in the broader Persian heritage aesthetic. Sudabeh is one of the foundational characters in the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) by Ferdowsi (c. 1010 CE) — the foundational queen of King Kāvus (Kavus Shah) + stepmother of the foundational tragic hero Siyâvash (Siyavash). Her foundational unrequited love for her stepson Siyâvash + her false accusation against him constitute one of the foundational episodes of Persian epic literature — comparable to the foundational Phaedra-Hippolytus tragedy in Greek mythology (Euripides) + the foundational Joseph-Potiphar's wife narrative (Genesis 39). Foundational subject of Persian miniature painting + central to the foundational Iranian + Tajik literary tradition.
Featured throughout Persian heritage.
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Sudabeh reduces to four.