ابراہیم
Urdu
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Urdu اِبْراہِیم (ibrāhīm)
Borrowed from Classical Persian اِبْرَاهِیم (ibrāhīm), borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm), borrowed from Aramaic אַבְרָהָם (ʾaḇrāhām), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm). First attested in c. 1611[1] as Middle Hindi ابراهیم (abrahym /ibrāhīm/).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɪb.ɾɑː.ɦiːm/
- Hyphenation: اِبْ‧را‧ہِیم
- Rhymes: -ːm
Proper noun
اِبْراہِیم • (ibrāhīm) m (Hindi spelling इब्राहीम)[2][3]
- (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Abraham (prophet)
- a male given name from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm) [in turn from Classical Syriac ܐܒܪܗܡ, in turn from Hebrew אברהם]
- اِبْراہِیم لودھی ― ibrāhīm lodhī ― Ibrahim Khan Lodi
References
More information
- ^ “ابراہیم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ “ابراہیم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- ^ Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “ابراہيم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 26