Behind the Name: picam039's Personal Name List

Amir 1

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir, Malay, Indonesian, Bosnian

Other Scripts: أمير(Arabic) امیر(Persian, Urdu) Әмір(Kazakh) Әмир(Tatar, Bashkir) Амир(Russian)

Pronounced: a-MEER(Arabic, Persian) ə-MEER(Urdu)

Rating: 73% based on 3 votes

Means "commander, prince" in Arabic. This was originally a title, which has come into English as the Arabic loanword emir.

Arash

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Persian, Persian Mythology

Other Scripts: آرش(Persian)

Pronounced: aw-RASH(Persian)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

From Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬑𐬱𐬀 (Ərəxsha), of uncertain meaning, possibly from a root meaning "bear" [1]. In Iranian legend Arash was an archer who was ordered by the Turans to shoot an arrow, the landing place of which would determine the new location of the Iran-Turan border. Arash climbed a mountain and fired his arrow with such strength that it flew for several hours and landed on the banks of the far-away Oxus River.

Gol

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Persian

Other Scripts: گل(Persian)

Pronounced: GOL

Rating: 60% based on 3 votes

Means "flower, rose" in Persian.

Kamran

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Persian, Urdu, Azerbaijani

Other Scripts: کامران(Persian, Urdu)

Pronounced: kawm-RAWN(Persian)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Means "successful, prosperous, fortunate" in Persian.

Mehr

Gender: Masculine & Feminine

Usage: Persian, Persian Mythology

Other Scripts: مهر(Persian)

Pronounced: MEHHR(Persian)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Modern Persian form of Mithra. As a Persian vocabulary word it means "friendship, love, kindness". It is also the name of the seventh month of the Persian calendar. All of these derive from the same source: the Indo-Iranian root *mitra meaning "oath, covenant, agreement".

Nur

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: Arabic, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Urdu, Bengali, Uyghur, Indonesian, Malay

Other Scripts: نور(Arabic, Urdu) নূর(Bengali) نۇر(Uyghur Arabic)

Pronounced: NOOR(Arabic, Turkish, Uyghur) NUWR(Indonesian, Malay)

Rating: 47% based on 3 votes

Means "light" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition النور (al-Nūr) is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Rostam

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Persian, Persian Mythology

Other Scripts: رستم(Persian)

Pronounced: ros-TAM(Persian)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Meaning unknown, possibly from Iranian roots *rautas "river" and *taxma "strong". Rostam was a warrior hero in Persian legend. The 10th-century Persian poet Ferdowsi recorded his tale in the Shahnameh.

Soroush

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Persian Mythology, Persian

Other Scripts: سروش(Persian)

Pronounced: so-ROOSH(Persian)

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

Modern Persian form of Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 (Sraosha) meaning "obedience". In Zoroastrianism this was the name of a Yazata (a holy being), later equated with the angel Gabriel.