Abd al-Rahman

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Abd al-Rahman (Arabic: عبد الرحمن or occasionally عبد الرحمان; DMG ʿAbd ar-Raḥman) and variants, is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Rahman. The name means "servant of the most gracious", ar-Rahman being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. The initial vowel [a] of definite article al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by [u] (hence ul-). As the [r] in Rahman represented by Arabic letter rā or Roman R is a sun consonant, the [l] phoneme in the al- is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written in Arabic with letters corresponding to Abd al-Rahman, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Abd ar-Rahman. Alternative transliterations include Abdelrahman, Abd al-Rahman, Abdul Rahman, Abdur Rahman, Abdurrahman or Abdrrahman, Abd ar-Rahman, Abdulrahman, Abdur Rehman, Abdul Rehman, Abidur Rahman, Abdrrahman, and others, all subject to variant...

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