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Re: Favorite Persian / Arabic names!
My mother actually works for a lot of Persian families (she's a housekeeper) so I've fortunately gotten to know a bit about their culture and I've been to a lot of their parties growing up. My favorite Persian & Arabic names would have to be:Girls
Afsoon
Feride (this one is actually Turkish but it's a variant of an Arabic name)
Nour
Imani (Swahili name of Arabic origin)
Muna
Negeen
Soraya
Leila (SUPER popular among Persians but I still think it's pretty)
Farah
Rana (even though it means frog in Spanish haha)
Arezou
Elahe
Parisa (the name of one of my good childhood friends)
Jibril
Naima
Maryam
SumayyaBoys
Nima (this one is so cute!)
Yunus/Younes
Roham
Cyrus
Ilyas
Zaki
Faizel
Iskander
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Feride is really interesting. I'd forgotten about Turkish names in the OP, but expanding to them I'd include Adalet / Adilet, Dilara (variant of Delara), Elif, Evren, and Nevra - all feminine usage.I also forgot about Parisa! That's a cool one. I like the sound of Ilyas, too.
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