Muslim Name · Female · Persian origin
Meherunissa Name Meaning in Islam
Benevolence of women, original name of Mughal Empress Nur Jahan.
- Meaning
- Benevolence of women, original name of Mughal Empress Nur Jahan
- Origin
- Persian
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- مہرالنساء
- Pronunciation
- me-he-ru-NIS-sa
- Lucky number
- 1
Is Meherunissa an Islamic name? Yes. Meherunissa is an established name in Muslim use, Persian in origin. Its settled meaning is: Benevolence of women, original name of Mughal Empress Nur Jahan. It was carried by Nur Jahan (Mehrunnisa). 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
Compound. Persian mihr (kindness, sun) + Arabic al-nisāʾ (the women). 'Sun of women' or 'kindness of women'; the original name of Mughal Empress Nur Jahan.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Meem of love opens, the inner letters trace kindness flowing into a place of feminine plurality. A title that became a name.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Meherunissa'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 Meherunissa lives with more inside them than any one word can hold.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Benevolence of women, from Persian mehr (benevolence, sun) + al-nisa (of women). Original name of Nur Jahan, the Mughal Empress who was de facto ruler of the empire, the only Mughal woman whose coins were struck in her name.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Nur Jahan (Mehrunnisa) . Mughal Empress and twentieth wife of Emperor Jahangir, de facto ruler of Mughal India in his last years
How to Pronounce Meherunissa
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They are the same name. Meherunissa is also written Meheronissa, Meheroonissa, Meheruneessa, Meherunisa, Meherunissah and Mehrunisa. One name, several romanisations of مہرالنساء.
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