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صالح
صالح (ṣāliḥ) is a masculine given name. It is used in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish.
Arabic and Ottoman Turkish and Persian and UrduWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: Ṣāliḥ.
Meaning & origin
What it means
صالح goes back to a word meaning “to be good, right, proper; to be sound, whole; to suit; etc.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
صالح is Salih written in Arabic script. Salih comes from Arabic.
Explained through its name family
صالح’s family of names
In Arabic usage, صالح has a later derivative in Sali.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named صالح
- Saleh Al-ShehriSaudi footballerborn 1993
- Saleh El-SharabatyJordanian taekwondo practitionerborn 1998
- Saleh HardaniIranian association football playerborn 1996
- Saleh Al-TalibSaudi scholar and Imamborn 1974
- Saleh AsadiIranian military intelligence officer (died 2026)1963–2026
- Saleh al-LuhaydanSaudi scholar, judge, imam, preacher, and member of the Council of Senior Scholars1932–2022
- As-Susi789–874
- Saleh AjeeryKuwaiti astronomer1920–2022
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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