Save Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage Arabic, Turkish, Malay, Indonesian Scripts حلمي(Arabic) Pronounced Pron. /ˈħil.miːj/(Arabic) /ˈhil.mi/(Malay, Indonesian) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Means "my forbearance, my tolerance" from Arabic حلم (ḥilm) meaning "forbearance, longanimity, self-restraint". It is occasionally used as a feminine name in Indonesia.