Etymology

Farooq

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Today it means: A surname from Arabic. Full definition →

Arabic فَارُوق
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The story

  1. Arabic · borrowed fromفَارُوق“distinguisher (between truth and falsehood)”
  2. English todayFarooq

Borrowed from Arabic فَارُوق (fārūq, “distinguisher (between truth and falsehood)”), from the root ف ر ق (f r q, root). This surname is predominantly found in Pakistan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.