Muslim Baby Names Meaning Patience

What Muslim names meaning patience have in common

Sabr is the word, and its root means to bind or restrain, not to wait. Patience in this tradition is active: holding yourself to something rather than enduring it passively. The Quran pairs sabr with prayer as the two things to seek help through, and names Ayyub the pattern of it. Hilm is its companion, patience directed at people rather than at circumstance.

The classical roots this meaning is carried by:

• ص-ب-رsabr, patience as binding fast, holding a thing in place.
• ح-ل-مhilm, forbearance, patience with people rather than events.

Most looked-up Muslim baby names meaning patience

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1. SabirصابرPatient, enduring
2. SabrinaصبرينةPatient, Persian/Western form related to Ṣābira
3. AyyubأَيُّوبThe prophet Job
4. SassuiسسويThe heroine of the Sindhi love epic Sassui Punnhun
5. Abdessabourعَبْد الصَّبُورServant of الصبور, the Patient
6. Dhul-Kiflذو الكفلThe man of double share, the Quranic prophet of patience
7. EyüpأَيُّوبJob, the Prophet of patience, the one who endured all and was...
8. HaleemaحَلِيمَةForbearing, gentle, patient
9. HalimaحَلِيمَةGentle, patient, Ḥalīma al-Saʿdiyya, the Prophet's wet-nurse
10. InsanإنسانThe Human, Surah 76, the wine of paradise, gratitude and patience

Arabic baby names meaning patience

Every name here is an Arabic or Arabic-script name, and in Ilm ul Huroof the reading starts from the letter it opens with, not from the English transliteration. These are the letters that open the names in this theme.

• صSad opens 6 of them, among them Sabir, Sabrina, Sabina.
• أHamza opens 3 of them, among them Ayyub, Eyüp, Insan.
• عAin opens 2 of them, among them Abdessabour, Uthman.
• حHa opens 2 of them, among them Haleema, Halima.

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Islamic baby names meaning patience

A name is Islamic through its meaning and through the absence of any claim on what belongs to God alone, not through its sound. That is what this page is sorted on: every name here has been read against the classical lexicons and placed under patience because that is what it means, not because it resembles a word.

3 of them are Quranic, appearing in the Quran or borne by a figure named in it.

Ayyubأَيُّوب Sabrصَبْر Uthmanعُثْمَان

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Muslim boy names meaning patience

8 of these are boy names names.

Sabirصابر Ayyubأَيُّوب Abdessabourعَبْد الصَّبُور Dhul-Kiflذو الكفل Eyüpأَيُّوب Sabrصَبْر Timurتيمور Uthmanعُثْمَان

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Muslim girl names meaning patience

8 of these are girl names names.

Sabrinaصبرينة Sassuiسسوي Haleemaحَلِيمَة Halimaحَلِيمَة Insanإنسان Sabinaصابينة Sabiraصابرة Sabreenصابرين

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