Thanks for that; frankly I didn't think it had much to do with Queen Saaida's Guard - having said that the words for Royal and Queen are not that different.
Harithiya is of course not a million miles removed from a derivation of Haaris which is a guard.
In Oman at any rate the word for hunt is Sayd while the word for cross is saleeb.
Add in a bit of calligraphic squiggle and some pronunciation variations and Bob's your Uncle. That's why I love Arabic and also why experts get it wrong all the time.
Eddie
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