Given name

Mîkaîl

“who is like God?”

Mîkaîl is a given name from Arabic.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Mîkaîl goes back to Arabic مِيكَائِيل, meaning “who is like God?”

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Where it comes from

Mîkaîl comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic مِيكَائِيل.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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