Muslim Name · Male · Arabic origin
Emre Name Meaning in Islam
Love.
- Meaning
- Love. Turkish Sufi boys name
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- أ-م-ر
- Urdu
- امرہ
- Pronunciation
- EM-re
- Lucky number
- 3
Is Emre an Islamic name? Yes. Emre is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Love. Turkish Sufi boys name. Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and claim nothing that belongs to God alone, and this name meets both.
Read the letter-by-letter reading ↓Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
أ-م-ر. Turkish emre, friend, companion, lover in mystical poetry. The form was fixed by Yunus Emre (d. c. 1320), the great Anatolian Sufi poet whose vernacular Turkish verse founded the Alevi-Bektashi devotional canon. The Arabic root a-m-r (command) is the etymological source.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Alif of origin opens, Meem of love holds the heart, Ra carries gentle motion, and final Ta-marbuta seals the form complete. The letters trace love as something opened, held, moved, and finished.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Emre's letters draw from many elements at once, a full palette, not a single note. This is a name that asks its bearer to hold contradictions gracefully: warmth and steadiness, movement and depth. Running through the reading is Al-Ahad, the One, carried by a person as a singular, undivided presence. A person named Emre carries a full weather system inside a single quiet chest.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Love, devotion, from Turkic emre (affection, devotion). Named after Yunus Emre, the 13th century Turkish Sufi poet whose poetry of divine love is one of the greatest literary achievements in Turkish Islam. Emre names the man of loving devotion quality. Top Turkish boys name.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Yunus Emre13th–14th century CE·AnatoliaSufi poet of Turkish folk Islam
How to Pronounce Emre
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About the name Emre
What does the name Emre mean?
Behind the meaning sits each letter, each with a quality of its own. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about Emre? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Emre? →
Is Emre mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Emre mean in Urdu?
The Urdu tradition preserved the meaning of each Arabic letter, the same letters that build Emre. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Emre a good Islamic name?
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Is Emre a boy or girl name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Emre in Ilm ul Huroof?
The reading comes from Ilm ul Huroof, the letter-science Ibn Arabi taught. Each letter in Emre carries an ontological role. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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