Aghlab (Name)

Aghlab (transliteration: Aghlab, Arabic: أغلب) is an ancient Arabian name for boys that means “lion”¹, “short and stout”², “one who has a thick neck”³⁴. When referring to a garden as aghlab, it means the garden is thick with plants.⁵ In modern Arabic, the word aghlab has come to be used to mean “most”, “the majority of”.⁶ It, however, continues to be used as a name by Arabs.

Aghlab is also spelled as Aglab, Eghleb and Egleb.

There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Aghlab:

• al-Aghlab bin Jusham الأغلب بن جشم

Below is the name Aghlab written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Aghlab written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Taaj al-Aroos by Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1790 CE), entry for غلب.
2. Kitaab al-Ain by al-Khaleel bin Ahmad al-Faraahidi (d. 786 CE) , entry for غلب.
3. Al-Mufradaat fi Ghareeb al-Qur’aan by al-Raaghib al-Asfahaani (d. c. 1109 CE), entry for غلب.
4. Tuhfah al-Areeb bima fil Qur’aan minal Ghareeb by Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati (d. 1344 CE), entry for غلب.
5. Al-Mu`jam al-Waseet by a Team of Writers (1998), entry for غلب.
6. Mu`jam al-Lughah al-Arabiyyah al-Mu`aasirah by Ahmad Mukhtar Umar (d. 2003 CE), entry for .