The name comes directly from the Arabic word رباب for a type of stringed instrument.
It was also the name of Rubāb bint Imraʾ al-Qays (b. 7th-century C.E). The wife of Husayn ibn Ali.
It is borne by Pakistani Olympic Swimmer, Rubab Raza (b. 1991).
Another transciption is Rabab.
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The name is used throughout the Islamic World.
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Sabih صبيح is a masculine Arabic name which comes directly from the Arabic word, صَبيح (ṣabīḥ), meaning, “comely; beautiful; handsome; graceful.” It is ultimately derived from the Arabic root word, صبح (ṣabuḥa) “to be beautiful; to be radiant; to beam.”
Sabiha صبيحة is its feminine form. It’s feminine form was borne by Sabiha Sultan (1894-1971) an Ottoman princess, the third and last daughter of Sultan Mehmed VI; the first Turkish female sculptor, Sabiha Bengütaş (1904-1992); and Turkish combat pilot, Sabiha Gökçen (1913-2001).
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Sahir is a masculine name which is derived from the Arabic root: س-ه-ر (s-h-r), related to staying awake at night. In some contexts it can also carry the poetic meaning “bright, wakeful like the night sky.” Its feminine form is Sahira ساهرة, also sometimes transliterated as Sahera and Sahirah.
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The name is derived from the Arabic word اَشْھَل (ashal) meaning, “bluish black eyes.” The name is also used in Iran, Afghanistan and among South-Asian Muslims.
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The name comes directly from the Arabic word شَوْق, which is ultimately from the Aramaic Shuqa (שׁוּקָא) of the same meaning.
It is mainly used in Gulf Arab countries and is occasionally used among the Muslim South-Asian community.
Other transliterations include: Shawq, and Shouk.
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The name is derived from the Arabic rootز-ب- د (z-b-d), which pertains to “cream, foam, butter,” along with the Arabic feminine diminutive suffix, roughly translating to “little cream” or “little butter,” having the same sense as “cream of the crop.”
This was the sobriquet of Zubaidah bint Ja’far (766–831), the wife of Harun al-Rashid. Borne as Sukhainah or Amat al-‘Aziz, she was known for her construction of wells and reservoirs along the pilgramage routes to Mecca and is featured in The Thousand and One Nights. Her life was later the inspiration behind the character of Zobeide in the German opera Abu Hassan by Carl Maria von Weber.
The Turkish form of the name, Zübeyde, was borne by an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Ahmed II, who lived from 1728 to 1756. It was also carried by Zübeyde Hanım (1856–1923), the mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The name appeared in the Top 100 most popular female names in Turkey between 1980 and 1986, peaking at #70 in 1981
It is also the name of an asteroid.
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In Eastern Religions, a rishi is an accomplished or enlightened person or a yogi who has composed hymns or Vedas. In the Vedas, it also refers to an inspired poem or hymn. In Buddhism, it may refer to a monk of high rank or a Buddha. The word itself may be derive from the Sanskrit root ṛṣ meaning “to move; to flow.”
Rishi is currently a common Indian male name, it is born by the current British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.
In the U.S., it currently ranks in as the 968th most popular male name (2023) and the 790th most popular in the U.K. and Wales (2021).
The feminine form is Rishika.
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Ayman is derived from the Arabic word يمين (yamin) meaning “right,” referring to the right hand. The word is ultimately derived from a Semitic root ي م ن (right). The Arabic root word is y-m-n (ي-م-ن), which can mean “right hand,” “right side,” “favor,” “blessing,” “prosperity,” “ease,” or “success.” It shares the same root as the Hebrew מִין (yamin) meaning, “right hand; south,” which forms a basis of the name Benjamin. The country of Yemen also gets its name from the same root word.
The name was borne by a companion of the Prophet Mohammed, known as Ayman Ibn Abayd.
Ayman is a traditional male name in the Arabic-speaking world, but has been commonly used on females in Pakistan, possibly in reference to the kunya of Umm Ayman (meaning “mother of Ayman”, the mother of Ayman Ibn Abayd, or perhaps due to it sounding more feminine in the Urdu language.
Its traditional Arabic feminine form is Yamina يمينة which is a popular female name in Maghrebi countries but is used in other predominate Islamic countries. Another feminine form is Yumna يُمْنَى, which is currently the 983rd most popular female name in the United States (2021).
A more unusual feminine form is Yumnaat يُمْنَات.
Ayamin أَيامِن which is a plural form يمين (yamin) is occasionally used as a unisex name.
Ayman currently ranks as the 96th most popular male name in Catalonia, Spain (2021).
Its current rankings in other countries are as follows:
Its Turkish form of Eymen is the 5th most popular male name in Turkey (2021). In the Netherlands it ranks in at #344 (2022) and in France at #440 (2021).
Another transliteration of Ayman is Aiman.
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Azraq أَزْرَق is from the masculine Arabic noun from the word for blue. The name has occasional use in Arabic-speaking North Africa and the Levant.
It’s feminine form of Zarqaa زرقاء is the Arabic feminine version of the word for blue زرقاء. It is transliterated as Zerqa or Zerka in Maghrebi Arab countries. Zerka can also be the Bosnian or Albanian form. This name has occasional use across the Islamic world.
Zaraq زرق is an Arabic unisex name derived from the neuter Arabic noun meaning “greenish-blue,” roughly translating to the color of turquoise (not the gemstone which in Arabic is Fairuz فيروز). Zaraq is mainly used as a masculine name in Southeast Asian countries such as Pakistan and India, but is considered unisex in the Arabic-Speaking world.
All three names derive from the Arabic root word z-r-q (ز-ر-ق), which means “blue.”
Other transliterations of the feminine form are Zurqa and Zurqa.’
The name comes directly from the Sanskrit word हिमानी meaning, “a mass of collection of snow; snow dirft.”
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