shakib

{{Infobox given name

| name = Shakib, Sakib

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| pronunciation= {{IPA|fa|ʃakiːb}}
{{IPA|ar|θaːqib}}

| gender = Male

| meaning = "Patience", "Piercing"{{cite web |title=Verse (86:3), Word: 2|url=https://corpus.quran.com/wordmorphology.jsp?location=(86:3:2) |website=The Quranic Arabic Corpus |language=en}}

| region = Iran, Levant, Bangladesh

| origin = Persian, Arabic

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Shakib ({{langx|fa|شکیب|Šakīb|lit=patience}}) and, Sakib ({{langx|ar|ثَاقِب|Ṯāqib|lit=piercing}}) are two male given names. Shakib comes from Persian word for patience ({{langx|fa|شکیبائی|Šakībâ'i|lit=patience}}) and, Sakib comes from Arabic which means "Piercing".

The word "Ṯāqibu" is mentioned in the Quran in the chapter of At-Tariq, verse 3.

{{bquote|ٱلنَّجْمُ ٱلثَّاقِبُ
al-najmu al-ṯāqibu
(It is) the star of piercing (brightness).|Third verse, Sura Aṭ-Ṭāriq}}

The name is often mistranslated as "Star",{{cite web |title=What Does The Name Sakib Mean? |url=https://www.names.org/n/sakib/about |website=The Meaning of Names |language=en}} due to being used as the adjective of "star" ({{langx|ar|نجم|Najm}}) in the aforementioned verse. It has also been used as a surname.