Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Meral Name Meaning in Islam
Meral.
- Meaning
- Meral. Gazelle. Turkish girls name
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- میرال
- Meaning in Urdu
- Not recorded in Urdu on this site.
- Pronunciation
- ME-ral
- Lucky number
- 2
Is Meral an Islamic name? On the site's editorial reading, yes (this is not a religious ruling): Meral is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Meral. Gazelle. Turkish girls 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
Turkish origin, meral (sometimes maral) is the red deer or gazelle, a poetic image of swift grace. Persian and Turkic both share the word.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Meem of love opens, Ya of reaching, Ra of mercy-in-motion, Alif of origin, Lam of authority. A swift mercy with authority in it.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Meral 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-Mu'min, the Faithful, giving the bearer a faith others can lean on, softened by Al-Latif, the Gracious, carried as an unshowy kindness that reaches the tender parts. A person named Meral is quieter than their fire suggests, and hotter than their calm implies.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
A Turkish girls' name meaning doe, gazelle. The word comes from the Persian maral, the female of the deer. Persian classical poetry uses maral for the woman whose grace of movement is beyond words.
In Turkish and Persian love poetry the eyes of the beloved are the gazelle's eyes, and her walk is the walk of the doe in the mountains at dawn. Meral is the way Turkish makes the image a girl's name.
The name is widely used in Turkey. It asks that a daughter carry the quiet, watchful grace of the doe into her days.
How to Pronounce Meral
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Names sharing the م Meem influence
Like Meral, these names carry Meem (م) as the dominant letter of their Arabic spelling.
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Variants of this name
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Meral
What does the name Meral mean?
Behind the meaning sits each letter, each with a quality of its own. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Meral? →
Is Meral mentioned in the Quran?
The Quran shapes more Islamic names than any other source. See where Meral sits among them. Browse all Quranic names in our collection →
What does Meral mean in Urdu?
The Urdu tradition preserved the meaning of each Arabic letter, the same letters that build Meral. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Meral a good Islamic name?
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Is Meral a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Meral in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is the Ibn Arabi tradition of Ilm ul Huroof. In the Ilm ul Huroof tradition each letter in Meral, starting from Meem, 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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Is Meral a rare or common Muslim name?
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