Nur (name)
| Nur | |
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| Pronunciation | [ˈnuːɾ] |
| Gender | Unisex |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Arabic |
| Meaning | light |
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Nur (also spelled Noor, Nor, or Nour, Arabic: نور, Urdu: نور ALA-LC: Nūr IPA: [nuːr]) is a common Arabic unisex name meaning light.[1] An-Nur, meaning "the light" in Arabic, is the 24th sura of the Qur'an.
In Dutch and Flemish Noor can be a form of Eleonore cognate to the English name Eleanor, the first bearer of which was Eleanor of Aquitaine and is probably Occitan in origin. Noor is currently a popular name for baby girls in the Flemish part of Belgium.
Given name
Noor
- Queen Noor of Jordan, former Queen of Jordan
- Noor Bukhari, Pakistani actress
- Noor Inayat Khan, Indian born British SOE agent
- Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress
Nour
- Nour (actress), Lebanese actress
Nur
- Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic
- Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean gymnast
- Nur B. Ali, Pakistani-American racecar driver
- Nur Fettahoğlu, Turkish German actress
- Nur Hossain, Bangladeshi activist
- Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress
- Nur Khan, Pakistan Air Force officer
- Nur ibn Mujahid, 16th-century Somali Emir of Harar
- Nur Mustafa Gülen (born 1960), Turkish footballer and coach
- Nur Nurhan Çakmak, Turkish women's footballer
- Nur Sürer, Turkish actress
- Nur Yalman, Turkish anthropologist
Surname
- Fadzil Noor (1937-2002), Malaysian politician
- Mohamed Noor, American biologist and geneticist
- Mohammed Noor (born 1978), Saudi Arabian footballer
- Ayman Nour (born 1964), Egyptian politician
- Mariam Nour (born 1936), Lebanese television personality
- Omar Nour (born 1978), Egyptian triathlete
- Nur Ahmed Nur (born 1937), Afghan communist
- Rıza Nur (1879–1942), Turkish surgeon
- Yusuf Haji Nur, Somali politician
Fictional characters
- Nour El Deen Mahmoud Nour El Deen, a fictional character in Malaf Al Mostakbal series
Arabic-based compound names with Nur as an element
- Nurullah, that is Nur Allah, meaning light of God
- Nur al-Din, that is Nur al- Din, meaning light of the religion/faith
- Noor ul-Haq, that is Nur al- Haqq, meaning light of the truth
- Nur ul-Huda, that is Nur al- Huda, meaning light of the guidance
- Nurul Islam, that is Nur al- Islam, meaning light of Islam
- Nuruzzaman, that is Nur al- Zaman, meaning light of the era
- Abdel Nour, that is Abd al- Nur, meaning servant of the light
- Nuri, meaning luminous or my light
- Núria is an Arabic Catalan girl's name, meaning light