Sunday, November 15, 2009

Do you know any beautiful unisex Arabic names?

Names in Arabic are generally not unisex, as Islam is the major religion....and in Islam men are not to do anything to be like women and women like men....So some names u may have a female then a male version of, just like English, but not really one name fits all.

Do you know any beautiful unisex Arabic names?
i don't know if all of them are suitable for both sexes but people do name both sexes with those names, examples are:


Wessam


Walaa


Nour


Safaa


Esmat


Iman


Redda
Reply:esmat,,reda..walaa,,ragaa,,sofie,,,,heda...
Reply:Alaa, nada, nancy, sara, walid, sandra, nour, tamer, may,saif
Reply:Kalooka mentioned them all, I'll just add Amal and Ashraf.
Reply:Yes, as Kalooka above me said. All the names he mentioned work for both males and females.


Here is a story. There are Muslims who don't speak Arabic. However, they like to name their sons and daughters Arabic names. They use names that are derived from Quran, or Hadith.


Taking into consideration that they are not native speakers, their understanding of the words is different from that of a native speaker.


I am trying to say that I once knew a girl called "Jamal". Even though Jamal is usually used for males, she was named like that.


I asked her. She said "what does Jamal mean?". I said it means "beauty".


She said "beauty could be masculine or feminie".


I couldn't find any answer to her argument.


Even though it is true that "Jamal" itself is a masculine word, "All the words in Arabic are either masculine or feminie", the fact remains that names like "Ekhlas", "Wafaa" are (strictly) used for females. The dazzling truth is that these words are NOT feminine. They are MASCULINE.


We say "Haza Al Ekhlas". Haza Al Wafaa". Hazaa is a demonstrative that is used solely with masculine names.








What I am trying to say is that there is not much logic in the way we use names in Arabic. We like to think that there is, but when we give it some careful thought, we find that there is not.


So you can choose any of the names that refer to abstract values, like "Jamal= beauty", "Ekhlas= sincerity", or "Wafaa= loyality" and use it.








How about Jamal now?
Reply:Safaa, ragaa, walaa, Gehad





hey listen to this funny story, i had a teacher who named her sons Soaad and Kawthar coz she wished them to be girls :D
Reply:all Arabic names are beautiful................





i know one for a girl monifah sorry don't know the meaning forgotten it
Reply:Whut I'm going to say might sounds wear but i saw once a doctor named "Rubi"!


but i think that name might be unisex cuz it means a beautiful stone,,,
Reply:Safaa (means clearence or pureness) It's popular for girls, but I have a male friend with that name.


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