Given name · also Arabic
İbrahim
“father”
İbrahim is a masculine given name from Arabic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Turkish and Azerbaijani.
Original Arabicإبْرَاهِيم
Meaning & origin
What it means
İbrahim is a romanization of Ибраһим. Ибраһим goes back to Arabic إبراهيم, meaning “father.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
İbrahim comes from Arabic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم, from Aramaic אַבְרָהָם (ʾaḇrāhām), from Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
İbrahim’s family of names
In Turkish usage, İbrahim has a later derivative in Брахим. In Turkish usage, İbrahim has a conventional equivalent in the English form Abraham. In Turkish usage, İbrahim has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ibrahim.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
İbrahim has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
Arabicwhere İbrahim comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- إبْرَاهِيمArabic
- AbrahamEnglish, German
- IbrahimEnglish
- إبراهيمequivalent
- 亞伯拉罕Chinese
- Брахимderivative · Bulgarian
- AbrãoPortuguese
- IbraimPortuguese
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People named İbrahim
- İbrahim TatlısesTurkish musician (born 1952)
- İbrahim KaypakkayaTurkish Marxist–Leninist revolutionary (1949-1973)
- İbrahim KutluayTurkish basketball player (born 1974)
- İbrahim KalınDirector of the National Intelligence Organization of Turkeyborn 1971
- İbrahim ÇelikkolTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1982)
- İbrahim ToramanTurkish association football player (born 1981)
- İbrahim PeçeviOttoman historian1574–1649
- İbrahim KaşTurkish association football player (born 1986)
- Ibrahim BaylanSwedish politicianborn 1972
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