Given name · Persian
الهام
الهام (elhâm) is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Persian.
PersianWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: Ilham.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic إِلْهَام, from Arabic أَلْهَمَ, from Arabic ل ه م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
الهام’s family of names
In Persian usage, الهام has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ilham. In Persian usage, الهام can be written in the Roman alphabet as elhâm.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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