proper name meanings in the Quran
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peace
I was wondering if someone had a link somwhere of the meanings of proper names in the Quran. For example Nuh, Yahya, Ishaq, Yaqoob etc....
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Peace mate
I would like to say that when we name new borns in arabic, we don't really select a name to describe the baby or its future, what human mostely do is choosing a neatly sound name as well maybe choose based on its common use or its rarity
therefore the names of the prophets or any other human name mentioned in the Quran means one thing only, it means that perosn, it never meant to describe the prophet, nick names are used for that not the real names
this may also apply to cities and towns, they will be given a name that really does not describe its status, for example "Al Qahira" "Cairo", now Qahira in arabic means "the victories", but I don't really get it, how a city can be victories for real?, is it the city or its people?
anyway it is obvous that when the english people translated "Al Qahira", they translated it to "Cairo" not to "Victories", why is that?, simply because it is a name and only means that city called Qahira
Salam
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peace Ahmed,
can you still just give him the meanings?
these are some I found...I don't know how trustworthy they are, though
I looked up Jesus in Hebrew and it means "God will Help." Don't know what Isa means or if it even has a meaning. It could've been taken from the bible.
Moses in Hebrew is "Saved from the Water"
I know that Muhammad is "praisworthy, glorified"
I couldn't find anything for Yaqub, but Jacob, again in Hebrew, means "held by the heel" (whatever that means).
And I heard someone mention that Abu Lahab means "father of the flame"I provided the hebrew names because I guess that's where the names come from and the names in the quran are just arabified versions of those words.