Muslim Name · Female · Persian origin
Laleh Name Meaning in Islam
Tulip, national flower of Iran.
- Meaning
- Tulip, national flower of Iran
- Origin
- Persian
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- لالہ
- Meaning in Urdu
- گلِ لالہ، فارسی ادب میں حسن کا استعارہ
- Pronunciation
- LA-leh
- Lucky number
- 3
Is Laleh an Islamic name? On the site's editorial reading, yes (this is not a religious ruling): Laleh is an established name in Muslim use, Persian in origin. Its settled meaning is: Tulip, national flower of Iran. It was carried by Laleh Bakhtiar. 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
This is a Persian-origin name using the Arabic script letters ل-ا-ل-ه. Persian-Urdu naming absorbs the Arabic letter system whole; the letter reading applies unchanged.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Laleh carries fire and water together, the two most different elements, will and mercy in one hand. This is a person of intense inner weather, capable of both flame and calm depth. Sitting inside the reading is Al-Latif, the Gracious, giving the bearer an unshowy kindness that reaches the tender parts, softened by Al-Hadi, the Guide, carried as the animating breath that guides others through. A person named Laleh is quieter than their fire suggests, and hotter than their calm implies.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Tulip, from Persian laleh (tulip). The tulip is the national flower of Iran, and also the national symbol of the Ottoman Empire. In Persian and Ottoman poetry, the tulip (especially the red tulip) symbolises the blood of martyrs and divine love. The tulip appears on countless Ottoman mosques and tiles.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Laleh Bakhtiar . Iranian-American author and translator, first American woman to translate the entire Qur'an into English
How to Pronounce Laleh
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They are the same name. Laleh is also written Lale. One name, several romanisations of لاله.
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Names sharing the ل Lam influence
Like Laleh, these names carry Lam (ل) as the dominant letter of their Arabic spelling.
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