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Names meaning garden, flowers, and paradise

Half the names in this family came into Arabic the way flowers come into a garden — slowly, from many directions, with each one keeping the shape of the place it grew. Yasmin is the jasmine. Warda is the rose. Rayhana is the basil that flavors a kitchen. There are date palms here, and laurel, and the legendary garden of Iram. There's a river in paradise (Kawthar) and a spring there (Tasnim). It's the largest theme in our library, because the Arabic tradition has loved the named-after-a-growing-thing for centuries. May your child grow into one of these names like a plant into its own pot.

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Names meaning garden, flowers, and paradise · Muslim baby names · Houdhoud