2 Islamic articles on: Baby Names Meaning “Honorable”

Table of contents for the topic Baby Names Meaning “Honorable”
  1. Budail (Name)
  2. Aghar (Name)

Budail (Name)

Budail (transliteration: Budayl, Arabic: بديل) is an Arabic name for boys that means “substitute”, “replacement”, something or someone that stands in the stead of another.123 Budail also means “honorable”, “respected”.4 Figuratively, the name can mean “a child whose birth is consolation for a loss”.

  • Budail bin Warqaa’ bin Abd al-Uzzaa بُديل بن ورقاء بن عبد العزّى
  • Budail ibn Abi Maryam بديل ابن ابي مريم
  • Budail (last name unknown) بُديل غير منسوب
  • Budail bin Salamah bin Umm Asram بديل بن سلمة بن أم أصرم
  • Budail bin Amr al-Khatmi al-Ansari بديل بن عمرو الخطمي الأنصاري
  • Budail bin Abd Manaf bin Salamah بديل بن عبد مناف بن سلمة
  • Budail bin Kulthum bin Salim al-Khuza`i بديل بن كلثوم بن سالم الخزاعي

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Aghar (Name)

Aghar (transliteration: Agharr, Arabic: ّأغر) is an Arabic name for boys that means “honorable”1, “highly respected”2. It also means “white-colored” (for example when describing the color of an animal).34

Aghar may also be spelled as Agher, Agharr and Agar.

There are two Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) named Aghar:

  • al-Aghar bin Yasar al-Muzani الأغر بن يسار المزني
  • al-Aghar al-Ghaffari الأغر الغفاري

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