Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Ghazal Name Meaning in Islam
Gazelle, love poem.
- Meaning
- Gazelle, love poem.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- غ-ز-ل
- Urdu
- غزل
- Meaning in Urdu
- غزال، ہرنی
- Pronunciation
- GHA-zal
- Lucky number
- 2
Is Ghazal an Islamic name? On the site's editorial reading, yes (this is not a religious ruling): Ghazal is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Gazelle, love poem. It was carried by Ghazal Alagh. 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
غ-ز-ل. From gh-z-l meaning to spin yarn and also to compose love poetry. The same root yields ghazal the lyric poem and ghazal the gazelle.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Ghayn keeps the beloved partly hidden in ghayb, Zayn adorns the verse with elegance, and Lam joins poet and beloved across the distance. Three letters compose a hidden beloved, an adornment, and a joining bond.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Water pools in Ghazal, the element of mercy, feeling, and receptive depth. The letters ask their bearer to hold others without hardening, to be a well and not a wall. Anchoring this reading is Al-Ghani, the Self-Sufficient, calling the person toward an inner sufficiency that does not need external filling. A person named Ghazal holds others without asking them to be smaller.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Gazelle, love poem, from Arabic ghazal (the gazelle; also the classical love poem). Ghazal is one of the supreme art forms of Urdu and Persian poetry, a sequence of independent couplets, each complete in itself, united by the poet signing their name in the final verse.
The ghazal form was perfected by Mir Taqi Mir, Ghalib, and Rumi. A girl named Ghazal is named for both the graceful gazelle and the most elegant poetic form of Islamic civilisation.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Ghazal Alagh . Indian Muslim entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Mamaearth (Honasa Consumer)
How to Pronounce Ghazal
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Names sharing the غ Ghayn influence
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Ghazal
What does the name Ghazal mean?
Each letter under this meaning has its own quality. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Ghazal? →
Is Ghazal mentioned in the Quran?
Quranic vocabulary lies behind a large share of Muslim names, Ghazal included where its root appears. Browse all Quranic names in our collection →
What does Ghazal mean in Urdu?
Centuries of Urdu writing carried the Arabic letter readings forward, and Ghazal carries them too. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Ghazal a good Islamic name?
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Is Ghazal a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Ghazal in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is Ilm ul Huroof, the classical Islamic science of letters in the line of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. Every Arabic letter under Ghazal is an ontological principle, not just a sound. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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