ابراہیم

See also: إبراهيم and ابراهیم

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm)bor.

Aramaic אַבְרָהָם (ʾaḇrāhām)bor.

Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm)bor.

Classical Persian (ibrāhīm)bor.

Urdu اِبْراہِیم

Borrowed from Classical Persian (ibrāhīm), borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm), borrowed from Aramaic אַבְרָהָם (ʾaḇrāhām), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm). First attested in c. 1611^[1] as Middle Hindi ابراهیم (abrahym /⁠ibrāhīm⁠/).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪb.ɾɑː.ɦiːm/
Hyphenation: اِبْ‧را‧ہِیم
Rhymes: -ːm

Proper noun

اِبْراہِیم • (ibrāhīm) m (Hindi spelling इब्राहीम)^[2]^[3]

(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Abraham (prophet)
a male given name from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm) [in turn from Classical Syriac ܐܒܪܗܡ, in turn from Hebrew אברהם]
اِبْراہِیم لودھی ― ibrāhīm lodhī ― Ibrahim Khan Lodi

See also

Islamic prophetsedit

آدَم (ādam)
اِدْرِیس (idrīs)
نُوح (nūh)
ہُود (hūd)
صَالِح (sālih)
اِبْرَاہِیم (ibrāhīm)
لُوط (lūt)
اِسْمَاعِیل (ismā'īl)
اِسْحَاق (ishāq)
یَعْقُوب (ya'qūb)
یُوسُف (yūsuf)
اَیُّوب (ayyūb)
ذُوالْکِفْل (zuālkifl)
شُعَیْب (śu'ayb)
مُوسَیٰ (mūsā)
ہَارُون (hārūn)
دَاؤُد (dāud)
سُلَیْمَان (sulaymān)
یُونُس (yūnus)
اِلْیَاس (ilyās)
اَلْیَسَع (alyasa')
زَکَرِیَّا (zakariyyā)
یَحْییٰ (yahyā)
عِیسَیٰ ('īsā)
مُحَمَّد (muhammad)

References

More information

^ “ابراہیم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
^ “ابراہیم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
^ Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “ابراہيم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 26