Bilal (Name)

Bilal (transliteration: Bilāl, Arabic: بلال) is an Arabic name for boys that means “that which quenches thirst”, meaning a wholesome and pure water, cold milk or other drink.¹²³

Bilal is also spelled Bilaal.

There are 11 Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Bilal, including his famous Companion Bilal ibn Rabah:

• Bilal bin Uhaihah بلال بن أحيحة
• Bilal al-Ansari بلال الأنصاري
• Bilal bin Bulail bin Uhaihah بلال بن بليل بن أحيحة
• Bilal bin al-Harith بلال بن الحارث
• Bilal bin al-Harith bin Bujair بلال بن الحارث بن بجير
• Bilal bin Hamamah بلال بن حمامة
• Bilal bin Rabah بِلال بن رباح
• Bilal bin Sa`d بلال بن سعد
• Bilal bin Malik al-Muzani بِلال بن مالك المزني
• Bilal al-Fazari بلال الفزاري
• Bilal bin Yahya بلال بن يحيى

Below is the name Bilal written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name BIlal written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Sultan Qaboos Encyclopedia of Arab Names (Sultan Qaboos University, 1985), بِلَال.
2. Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha (d. c. 995 CE), بل.
3. Al-Fayyūmī, Al-Miṣbāḥ al-Munīr fī Gharīb al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr (d. 1368 CE), بلل.