Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Hikmat Name Meaning in Islam
Wisdom.
- Meaning
- Wisdom
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ح-ك-م
- Urdu
- حکمت
- Meaning in Urdu
- Not recorded in Urdu on this site.
- Pronunciation
- HIK-mat
- Lucky number
- 1
Is Hikmat an Islamic name? On the site's editorial reading, yes (this is not a religious ruling): Hikmat is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Wisdom. It was carried by Hikmat al-Hajj. 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
ح-ك-م. From h-k-m, meaning to judge, to render firm, to govern with discernment. The root underlies hikmah (wisdom), hukm (judgment), and the divine names al-Hakīm and al-Hakam.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
The Ha-breath (ح) carries the breath of mercy, the Kaf (ك) the kun-creativity that frames, the Meem (م) the love that holds, and the final ة the seal of completion. The letters together suggest mercy framed by creative love into wisdom. The letter grid also shows Ta marbuta (ة) with Al-Tawwab (The Relenting).
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Hikmat'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-Hamid, the Praiseworthy, carried by a person as the trust to receive genuine praise, not flattery. A person named Hikmat carries a full weather system inside a single quiet chest.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Wisdom, the ability to put things in their right place, from the Arabic root ح-ك-م (hakama, to judge, to be wise, to govern with discernment). Hikma is one of the most exalted concepts in the Quran, named explicitly as one of the four things the Prophet was sent to give: 'He recites to them His verses, purifies them, and teaches them the Book and the Wisdom (al-hikma)' (62:2).
The Quran says: 'He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever has been given wisdom has certainly been given much good' (2:269). The Prophet Luqman is the great Quranic figure of hikma: 'And We had certainly given Luqman wisdom' (31:12), and what follows is the most concentrated parental counsel in the Quran.
Al-Hakim (the All-Wise) is one of the ninety-nine names of Allah. The combination Al-Aziz al-Hakim (the Mighty, the Wise) appears 47 times in the Quran. To bear the name Hikmat is to carry the suggestion of that quality in its created form, wisdom not as cleverness but as the deeper insight that knows the right action for the right moment.
Used as both a girls and boys name across South Asia, Turkey, the Levant, and the wider Muslim world. Variants: Hikmat, Hikmet (Turkish), Hekmat (Persian).
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Hikmat al-Hajj . Borne by Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkish communist poet of 'Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları'. Hikmet is family name; the personal name Hikmat is also borne by Hikmat Süleyman, former PM of Iraq (1882–1964)
How to Pronounce Hikmat
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Hikmat
What does the name Hikmat mean?
The letters of Hikmat, beginning with Ha, each carry a separate quality. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Hikmat? →
Is Hikmat mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Hikmat mean in Urdu?
The Urdu tradition preserved the meaning of each Arabic letter, the same letters that build Hikmat. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Hikmat a good Islamic name?
The letters of Hikmat, each with its own reading, are laid out above: jump to the letters reading ↑
Is Hikmat a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Hikmat in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is the Ibn Arabi tradition of Ilm ul Huroof. In the Ilm ul Huroof tradition each letter in Hikmat, starting from Ha, is read as a principle of the name; this is interpretation offered for reflection. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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