Azraq (Name)

Azraq (transliteration: Azraq, Arabic: أزرق) is an Arabic name for boys that means “blue” (the color).¹ It means “pure” when used to describe water.² Azraq is also used with the meaning of “hawk”, “falcon” and “leopard”.³⁴

There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Azraq:

• al-Azraq bin Uqbah الأزرق بن عقبة

Below is the name Azraq written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Azraq written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha (d. c. 995 CE), زرق.
2. Al-Fayyūmī, Al-Miṣbāḥ al-Munīr fī Gharīb al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr (d. 1368 CE), زرق.
3. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), زرق.
4. Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs fī Jawāhir al-Qamūs (d. 1790 CE), زرق.