Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Mawaddah Name Meaning in Islam
Love and affection.
- Meaning
- Love and affection. Quranic quality as name
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- مودۃ
- Pronunciation
- ma-WAD-dah
- Lucky number
- 1
Is Mawaddah an Islamic name? Yes. Mawaddah is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Love and affection. Quranic quality as 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
و-د-د, from w-d-d, to love with affection. Mawadda is the deep abiding love between spouses, mentioned in Q 30:21: 'jaʿala baynakum mawaddatan wa-raḥmah'. He placed between you love and mercy.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Meem of love opens, Waw of connection, Dal of return, Ta of completion. Love made into a connecting door, sealed in form.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Mawaddah'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-Mu'min, the Faithful, carried by a person as a faith others can lean on. A person named Mawaddah lives with more inside them than any one word can hold.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Love, deep affection, directly Quranic. 'And He placed between you mawaddah (love) and mercy' (30:21), in the verse about marriage as a divine sign. Mawaddah is the deep affection placed by Allah in the hearts of spouses, not earned love but divinely placed love. Mawaddah names the girl who carries this divinely placed love in her very nature. Top Malay girls name.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
How to Pronounce Mawaddah
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Mawaddah
What does the name Mawaddah mean?
The letters that build Mawaddah each speak on their own terms. What does Ilm ul Huroof say about Mawaddah? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Mawaddah? →
Is Mawaddah mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Mawaddah mean in Urdu?
Centuries of Urdu writing carried the Arabic letter readings forward, and Mawaddah carries them too. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Mawaddah a good Islamic name?
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What is the spiritual meaning of Mawaddah in Ilm ul Huroof?
In Ilm ul Huroof, the science of letters that Ibn Arabi worked within, every letter of Mawaddah is a principle, not a phoneme. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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