Word origins

• FahdA male given name from Arabic.
• ambaA characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.
• KarbalaA city in central Iraq, site of the murder of Husayn ibn Ali and major pilgrimage destination for Shiite Muslims.
• hafizA Muslim who has memorized the whole Qur'an.
• juzAny of thirty parts of varying length into which the Qur'an is sometimes divided.
• HayatA surname from Arabic.
• ZahraA female given name from Arabic.
• amiraA member of a wealthy class of Armenian grandees in Constantinople which was in charge of national Armenian matters in the Ottoman Empire before the Armenian National Constitution of 1860 was adopted.
• LatifA surname.
• falafelA Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.
• HyderA surname.
• ManamaA city, the capital city of Bahrain.
• YousefA male given name from Arabic.
• AkramA surname from Arabic.
• YounisA surname from Arabic.
• AnbarA medieval town in Anbar Province, in modern-day central Iraq, now abandoned.
• ShakirA male given name from Arabic.
• shuraA body that provides counsel to a leader.
• HamadA male given name from Arabic.
• casbahThe fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
• JamilA surname.
• fiqhJurisprudence in the Islamic law, shari'a.
• SalukiAn ancient sighthound breed of dog with a silky coat originating in the Middle East, once sacred to the Egyptians.
• ghulamA personal guard to the shah of Persia.
• wawTo stir; move; wave.
• abedIn bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
• mazarA mausoleum or shrine in the Arab world.
• darsA lesson on a topic in the Qurʾān or Sunna.
• SuleimanA male given name from Arabic.
• haramA sin.
• waliA provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.
• FatehA surname from Arabic.
• SelimA surname from Arabic.
• fajrthe first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims.
• ISAMA male given name.
• hamadaA high, desert landscape from which most of the sand has been removed by wind erosion
• MansurA transliteration of the Arabic male given name مَنْصُور (manṣūr)
• marahA gratuity in the form of deductions from the gross produce of cultivated lands, granted to a mirasidar.
• FarooqA surname from Arabic.
• raadAn assembly in one of the Boer republics of South Africa.
• QureshiA surname from Arabic.
• FarrakhanA surname from Arabic, notably borne by American religious leader Louis Farrakhan.
• zinaAdultery, fornication.
• kaziA civil judge in Arabic, Persian or Turkish countries.
• anisA surname from Arabic.
• QumranA region on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
• SalihA prophet of Islam who prophesied to the people of Thamud.
• ayahA South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia.
• nasiCooked rice.
• iwanA large, vaulted chamber with a monumental arched opening on one side.
• samarraA city in Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris. In medieval times, it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
• QudsSynonym of al-Quds, Jerusalem as the capital city of Palestine.
• SanyaA female given name from Russian.
• SadiqA surname from Arabic.
• BoutrosA surname from Arabic.
• dibsThe right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else.
• zahirThe external or apparent meaning of the Qur'an
• siraA traditional Muslim biography of Muhammad.
• JabbarA surname from Arabic.
• JafarA male given name from Arabic, Persian
• ZaidA male given name from Arabic.
• umrahA minor hajj, a lesser pilgrimage to Mecca, other than at the time of the hajj.
• KaderA surname from Arabic.
• MuharramThe first month of the Islamic calendar, when many Islamic communities hold a festival commemorating the deaths of the grandsons of Muhammad.
• hizbeach of the roughly equilongitudinal 60 parts in which the Quran has been traditionally divided to ease its reading and memorization
• HudaA female given name from Arabic.
• RabbA title used for God.
• BadawiA surname from Arabic.
• SafarThe second month of the Islamic calendar.
• RamziA male given name from Arabic.
• Hirathe grotto or cave, in Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad first received the Qur'an from Gabriel.
• sahihAuthentic: said of a hadith that has been preserved and transmitted accurately.
• SOADSystem of a Down, an Armenian-American alternative metal band.
• janjaweedAn Arab militia force in Darfur, western Sudan, which has been in conflict with various Darfur rebel groups.
• kitabAn Islamic book.
• YunusJonah, a major prophet of Islam.
• NadeemA surname from Arabic.
• SununuA surname from Arabic.
• QasimQasim, the eldest son of the prophet Muhammad.
• malasA surname.
• Hijrithe Islamic lunar calendar; begins with the migration of Muhammad, 16 July 622 AD; months begin at sunset on the day of visual sighting of the new moon
• AbadiA surname.
• BarghoutiA surname from Arabic.
• AjmanAn emirate of the United Arab Emirates.
• abidslave
• jamaatParty; community; group; assembly.
• salatThe obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a day and the second of the five pillars of Islam.
• FareedA transliteration of the Arabic male given name فَرِيد (farīd).
• mutatA compensation gift given to a woman when divorced or repudiated by her husband.
• baharA weight used in the 18th and 19th century in the Middle East and the East Indies, of no single standard but rather of varying sizes sometimes termed little bahars and great bahars.
• AhmadiOf or relating to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (a religious movement based on Sunni Islam).
• JawadA surname from Arabic.
• tubasA city in the West Bank, Palestine.
• MerahA surname from Arabic.
• zahidAn ascetic.
• UthmanUthman bin Affan, third Islamic caliph and a companion of Muhammad.
• SalamaA surname from Arabic.
• shaheedAn Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
• AlaminA surname from Arabic.
• DruzeA member of a secretive Ismaili Shiite community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.