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This section includes first names of Arabic origin. Arabic is not only one of the most spoken languages, it is also the language of Islam, and Arabic names are used by people around the world.
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Browse Arabic male and female names by alphabetical order to find out the meanings of the names. Click on the first letter of the name you're looking for.
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Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic language family and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic; it has over 200 million speakers, mainly throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
Modern Arabic dialects descend from Classical Arabic, the language used to write the Qur'an in the 6th century. Although Classical Arabic is no longer spoken, Muslims often consider it to be a sacred language, and it is studied throughout the Islamic world.
Almost all Arabic speakers use Modern Standard Arabic for writing and formal speech, but spoken dialects vary so greatly that speakers of one dialect often cannot understand speakers of another. Egyptian Arabic is the largest dialect and is the most widely understood due to the prominence of Egyptian media in the Arabic-speaking world.
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