Muslim Boy Names Meaning Wisdom

What Muslim names meaning wisdom have in common

Hikmah, wisdom, comes from a root that also gives the bridle of a horse. Wisdom is what restrains and directs, not what accumulates. That is the difference from ilm, knowledge, which the Quran returns to more than almost any other subject. A person can have ilm without hikmah, and the tradition says so plainly. Names in this family choose one or the other.

The classical roots this meaning is carried by:

• ح-ك-مhikmah, wisdom as right judgment, from the bridle that steadies.
• ع-ل-مilm, knowledge, the most repeated theme in the Quran after God.
• ف-ه-مfahm, understanding, grasping the sense of a thing.

Most looked-up Muslim boy names meaning wisdom

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1. HakimحَكِيمAl-Hakim, the All-Wise, divine name
2. ArfanعرفانMystical knowledge, Pakistani boys name
3. DuraidدريدThe old and wise man, the experienced elder whose counsel is truth
4. IrfanعرفانKnowledge, gnosis, esoteric or experiential knowing
5. NahlنحلThe Bee, Surah 16, the bee as symbol of divine wisdom and community
6. AqeelعَقِيلWise, intelligent, the companion of the Prophet from the noble...
7. Abdul Hakimعبد الحكيمServant of the Wise
8. AbdulalimعبدالعليمServant of العليم, the All-Knowing
9. AblikimابليكيمUyghur form of Abd al-Hakim, servant of the Wise
10. Abu Dardaأبو الدرداءThe wise scholar of Damascus, beloved companion

Arabic boy names meaning wisdom

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.

• عAin opens 7 of them, among them Arfan, Irfan, Aqeel.
• أHamza opens 4 of them, among them Abu Darda, Adib, Areeb.
• لLam opens 3 of them, among them Labib, Lokman, Luqman.
• اAlif opens 2 of them, among them Ablikim, Zubair.
• بBa opens 2 of them, among them Baqir, Bassir.

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Islamic boy names meaning wisdom

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 wisdom because that is what it means, not because it resembles a word.

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

Luqmanلُقْمَان Zubairالزُّبَيْر

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Muslim girl names meaning wisdom

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Sofiaصوفيا Aidanaايدانا Aqilahعاقلة Basaairبصائر Binishبینش Danisyaدانيشا Fahimaفهيمة Fahimehفهيمة Farzanaفرزانة Hikmatحكمة

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