Noor (name)

Noor
Pronunciation	[ˈnuːɾ]
Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	light

Noor (also spelled Nur, 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.

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

• Noor Hassanali, former president of Trinidad and Tobago
• Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
• Queen Noor of Jordan, former Queen of Jordan
• Noor Alam, Pakistani field hockey player
• Noor Bukhari, Pakistani actress
• Noor Inayat Khan, Indian born British SOE agent
• Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress

Nour

• Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor
• Nour El-Demerdash, Egyptian actor and director
• Nour (actress), Lebanese actress

Nur

• Nur ibn Mujahid (reigned 1550-1567), Ethiopian muslim leader
• Nur Khan, Pakistan Air Force officer
• Büşra Nur Tırıklı (born 1994), Turkish Paralympian discus thrower
• Cak Nur, nickname of Nurcholish Madjid, a prominent Indonesian Muslim intellectual
• Merve Nur Eroğlu (born 1993), Turkish Paralympic archer
• 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 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 Sutan Iskandar, Indonesian author
• Nur Yalman, Turkish anthropologist

Surname

• Fadzil Nurr (1937-2002), Malaysian politician
• Mohamed Nur, 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
• Nour, central character in spiritual Sufi text about the history of fire written by Ahmed El Bedawi; recently retold by Idries Shah
• Nour, young boy in J. M. G. Le Clézio's novel Désert (novel)

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

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