- Meaning
- King-faced
- Origin
- Persian
- Gender
- Boy
- Urdu
- شاهرخ
- Pronunciation
- shohr-ukh
Is Shohrukh an Islamic name? Yes. Shohrukh is an established name in Muslim use, Persian in origin. Its settled meaning is: King-faced. 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 ↓Shohrukh (شاهرخ) means: King-faced. Persian; the name of Shah Rukh, son of Tamerlane.
Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
Shohrukh is a name of Persian origin in Muslim use. It does not carry a classical Arabic triliteral root; its letters in the Arabic script are still read for their qualities in Ilm ul Huroof, as the next section shows.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
The letters of Shohrukh unpack as follows in the classical Science of Letters:
Sheen (ش): spreading, dispersal, radiating · Alif (ا): origin, standing upright, the first breath · Ha (ه): the soft breath, the sigh · Ra (ر): the head, the direction taken · Kha (خ): the hidden, that which stays inside
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
The letters in Shohrukh cluster around fire, the element of will, warmth, and forward motion. This is a name that leans toward decisiveness and radiance, with the courage to begin what others hesitate to. Threaded through it is Al-Shakur, the Appreciative, carried by a person as a way of noticing and honouring small kindnesses. A person named Shohrukh carries the kind of fire people gather around, not the kind that burns them.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Shohrukh is a Persian name, used across Persian-speaking Muslim communities from Iran through Central Asia and the South Asian Muslim world. The name carries the meaning: King-faced. Persian; the name of Shah Rukh, son of Tamerlane.
Every letter of Shohrukh in the Arabic script has been read in the classical tradition of Ilm ul Huroof as an ontological principle: the letters do not merely spell the sound of the name, they carry the qualities the tradition ascribes to it. See the letter reading above.
In Islam, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: "You will be called on the Day of Resurrection by your names and the names of your fathers, so give yourselves good names" (Abu Dawud). A well-chosen name is a lifelong invocation of the meaning it carries.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
How to Pronounce Shohrukh
Parents often pair Shohrukh with a sibling name that shares a letter, a root, or a community tradition. Names with a strong Arabic root are traditionally paired with other classical Arabic names; names from a specific regional Muslim tradition are traditionally paired within that tradition.
Browse the AsrNaam library to find a companion name for Shohrukh:
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