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Names meaning moon, stars, and night
Before there were street lamps, families learned a child's face by moonlight. Arabic carries a whole cluster of names that point upward: to the moon at every stage, to the star that comes by night, to the night itself as a place of quiet and conversation. Some of these names are old enough to have shaped the way poets sang about beauty for a thousand years. Layla means night. Qamar is the moon. Each one carries a sky inside it.
25 names
- Laylaلَيْلَى
Night, dark beauty
Arabic · Persian · TurkishQur’anic root - Badrبَدْر
Full moon
Arabic - Mahnoorماهنُور
Moonlight
Urdu · Persian · Arabic - Halaهَالَة
Halo, ring around the moon
Arabic - Tariqطَارِق
Night-comer; one who knocks; the piercing star
Arabic · Berber · TurkishQur’anic root - Najmaنَجْمَة
Star
Arabic - Samirسَمِير
Companion of evening conversation
Arabic - Samarسَمَر
Evening conversation under the moon
Arabic - Suhailسُهَيْل
Canopus, the star; ease
Arabic - Esraإِسْرَاء
Night journey
Turkish · ArabicQur’anic root - Samiraسَمِيرَة
Companion of evening conversation
Arabic - Lejlaلَيْلَا
Night (Bosnian form of Layla)
Arabic - Sorayaثُرَيَّا
The Pleiades star cluster
Arabic · Persian - Mahsaمَهسَا
Like the moon
Persian - Qamarقَمَر
Moon
Arabic - Samerسَامِر
Companion of the night, storyteller
Arabic - Selinسِلين
Moonlight; flood
Turkish - Sariyaسَارِيَة
Night cloud; one who travels by night
Arabic - Ayselأَيسِل
Moonlight; flowing moon
Turkish - Hilalهِلَال
Crescent moon
Turkish · Arabic - Saqibثَاقِب
Piercing, bright (of a star)
Arabic · Urdu - Shahabشِهَاب
Shooting star, meteor
Arabic · Persian - Badriyaبَدْرِيَّة
Like the full moon
Arabic - Mahnazمَهنَاز
Moon-graceful
Persian - Zuhuraزُهُرَة
Venus; brilliance
Swahili · Arabic
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