Salih

Gender Masculine
Scripts صالح (Arabic) সালেহ (Bengali)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈsʕaː.liħ/ (Arabic) /saː.ˈlih/ (Turkish) [key ·simplify]
Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as SALİH in uppercase and salih in lowercase.

Meaning & History

Means "virtuous" in Arabic, a derivative of صلح (ṣalaḥa) meaning "to be good, to be proper" [1] [2] . According to the Quran this was the name of an early Arabian prophet.

Related Names

VariantSaleh (Arabic)
Feminine FormsSalha, Saliha (Arabic) Saliha (Turkish)
Other Languages & CulturesSaleh (Azerbaijani) Salihu (Hausa) Saleh (Indonesian)
Surname DescendantsSaleh, Salih (Arabic) Salihović (Bosnian)

Popularity

  1. Ahmed, Salahuddin. A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New York University, 1999, page 186.
  2. Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Spoken Language Services, 1979, page 609.

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