Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Perihan Name Meaning in Islam
Perihan.
- Meaning
- Perihan. Fairy-like. Turkish girls name
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- پریہان
- Meaning in Urdu
- Not recorded in Urdu on this site.
- Pronunciation
- pe-RI-han
- Lucky number
- 7
Is Perihan an Islamic name? On the site's editorial reading, yes (this is not a religious ruling): Perihan is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Perihan. Fairy-like. 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
Persian/Turkish compound, parī (fairy) + jān (soul). 'Soul of a fairy', 'fairy-souled'. A common Turkish girls' name.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Ba (Pa) of foundation opens, Ra of mercy, Ya of reaching, Ha of presence, Alif of origin, Nun of depth. A fairy-soul made present.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Perihan 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-Batin, the Interior, carried as an interior life that runs deeper than what is shown, and beside it Al-Nur, the Light, adding a light that steadies the room. A person named Perihan plants what their fire has cleared.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
A Persian and Turkish compound: pari (fairy, angel-like being) plus khan (lord, queen). Together Perihan is the queen of the fairies, the classical Persian image of the woman whose beauty and grace are of another order.
In Ottoman court poetry the parihan is the woman whose face makes the poet forget the ordinary language he had been using. It is used across Turkey, Iran, and the wider Turkic and Persianate cultural sphere.
Perihan asks that a daughter be met with the reverence a folk imagination gave to the fairy-queen.
How to Pronounce Perihan
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What does the name Perihan mean?
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Is Perihan mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Perihan mean in Urdu?
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Is Perihan a good Islamic name?
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What is the spiritual meaning of Perihan in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is the Ibn Arabi tradition of Ilm ul Huroof. In the Ilm ul Huroof tradition each letter in Perihan, starting from Pa, 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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