Balkan · Girl names
Balkan Muslim Girl Names
15 girl names used in balkan Muslim communities, each placed here by where the name is actually given rather than only by where its root comes from.
15 names
- On this page
- 15 researched names
- Sorted by
- Where the name is actually used
- Every entry has
- Arabic spelling, meaning, and the Ilm ul Huroof reading
Balkan Muslim Girl Names? Balkan Muslim naming survived five centuries of Ottoman rule and a century of pressure after it. The names are Arabic and Turkish by origin, carried in a Slavic sound world, and often shortened.
عايدةAidaReturning, visitor, top Arab/Bosnian girls
علمةAlmaKnowledgeable, Bosnian/Spanish Muslim name
أملAmelHope
آملةAmelaWorker of good deeds, Bosnian Muslim girl name
عمرةAmraPilgrim of Umrah, Bosnian girls' name
بلماBelmaClear water, Bosnian Muslim girl name
إديناEdinaReligion/Paradise, Bosnian girls name
إيليناElenaBright, Western/Bosnian Muslim convert
الماElmaApple, fair, top Bosnian Muslim girl name
إلفيراElviraTruthful, Andalusian, Bosnian Muslim girls name
آمِنَةEminaFaithful, the #1 Bosnian Muslim girl name
ليلىLejlaLayla, Bosnian spelling
ميريلاMirelaAdmirable, Bosnian Muslim girls name
سلمىSelmaSalma, Bosnian/Swedish spelling
تسنيمTesnimTasnim, Bosnian spelling
What marks a balkan Muslim name
Balkan Muslim naming survived five centuries of Ottoman rule and a century of pressure after it. The names are Arabic and Turkish by origin, carried in a Slavic sound world, and often shortened.
A name appearing on this page is not exclusive to the region. Most Muslim names travel, and the same root turns up under different spellings from Dakar to Dhaka. What the region tells you is where the name is at home: whose grandparents carried it, and which spelling a registrar there would expect.
Questions people ask
What are popular balkan Muslim girl names?
AsrNaam lists 15 of them, each researched against the classical Arabic lexicons. The list above is alphabetical rather than ranked, because popularity data for balkan naming is patchy and a ranking built on guesswork is worse than none.
Are balkan names Islamic names?
Origin and permissibility are different questions. Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and not claim for a person what belongs to God alone. A name can be Persian, Turkic or Wolof in origin and meet both conditions, and many on this page do.
How is the Ilm ul Huroof reading produced?
Each Arabic letter of the name is read against the divine name and element the classical Science of Letters attaches to it. The full method and its sources are set out on the Ilm ul Huroof page.
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