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نوح
نوح (Nûh) is a masculine given name from Arabic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. 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: Noah.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
نوح comes from Arabic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Arabic نُوح, from Classical Syriac ܢܘܿܚ (nōḥ), from Biblical Hebrew נֹחַ (nōaẖ).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
نوح’s family of names
In Persian usage, نوح has a conventional equivalent in the English form Noah. In Arabic usage, نوح has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Нух.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named نوح
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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“the people are enlarged” · “people of width”
>99% boys
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“triad” · “third”
>99% boys