Halim

Halim (حليم) is an Arabic adjective meaning gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger, "what we call a civilized man".[1] In Islam, Al-Halīm is one of the 99 names of God, with that meaning.

The name

Halim is also used as an abbreviated version of Abdul Halim, or independently, as a name given to a male. Examples of that are:

Halim may also be a last name:

References

  1. ^ Golziher, Ignaz, Muslim Studies, ed. S.M. Stern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 202–203, as cited in Stetkevych, Jaroslav, Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Deconstructing Arabian Myth (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 14.