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Pronunciation
  
[ˈnuːɾ]

Word/name
  
Arabic

Gender
  
Unisex

Meaning
  
light

Noor (name)

Noor (also spelled Nur, Nor, or Nour, Arabic: نور‎‎, Urdu: نور‎ : Nūr [nuːr]) is a common Arabic unisex name meaning light. An-Nur, meaning "the light" in Arabic.

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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.

Noor

  • Noor Hassanali, former president of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Noor Muhammad, Pakistani mathematician
  • Noor Muhammad Butt, Pakistani nuclear physicist
  • 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

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

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  • 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
  • Efsane Nur Düzparmak (born 1997), Turkish women's footballer
  • 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
  • Seda Nur İncik (born 2000), Turkish footballer

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  • 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

    • References

    Noor (name) Wikipedia
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