Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Joumana Name Meaning in Islam
Joumana.
- Meaning
- Joumana. Silver pearls. Levantine girls
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ج-م-ن
- Urdu
- جمانہ
- Pronunciation
- jou-MA-na
- Lucky number
- 9
Is Joumana an Islamic name? Yes. Joumana is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Joumana. Silver pearls. Levantine girls. It was carried by Joumana Haddad. 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
ج-م-ن. From Persian gawhar / jumān (silver pearls) Arabized in classical naming, the small luminous pearls strung in necklaces.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Joumana joins fire to earth, the will that decides with the patience that lasts. This is a name that asks its bearer to burn steadily rather than in bursts, and to plant what the fire has cleared. Running through the reading is Al-Jami, the Gatherer, carried as the ability to gather people around what matters, and beside it Al-Tawwab, the Relenting, adding the readiness to return and be returned to. A person named Joumana is the kind of person a village grows around.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
From the Arabic جمانة (jumana), a silver pearl, a pearl of pure silver colour. Joumana is the Levantine French orthography of the classical name.
In classical Arabic gemmology the jumana is the highest grade of pearl, its lustre distinguishing it from lesser varieties. Classical love poetry uses it for teeth like a string of jumana and for beauty that is unmistakably its own.
Joumana is a widely used Levantine girls' name, particularly in Lebanon, Syria, and the Lebanese diasporas of Paris and Montreal. It asks that a daughter be valued as one values a rare pearl.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Joumana Haddad . Lebanese poet and journalist, editor of An-Nahar's literary supplement, author of 'I Killed Scheherazade'
How to Pronounce Joumana
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What does the name Joumana mean?
Behind the meaning sits each letter, each with a quality of its own. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about Joumana? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Joumana? →
Is Joumana mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Joumana mean in Urdu?
Urdu kept the Arabic letter meanings alive through poetry and scholarship, they still sit under Joumana. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
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What is the spiritual meaning of Joumana in Ilm ul Huroof?
In Ilm ul Huroof, the science of letters that Ibn Arabi worked within, every letter of Joumana is a principle, not a phoneme. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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