Halim (name)

Halim or Haleem (Arabic: حليم) is an Arabic masculine given name which means gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger, "what we call a civilized man".[1]

In Islam, Al-Halīm is one of the 99 names of God, with that meaning.

Abdul Halim or Abdel Halim means servant of God, as thus described, and bearers of that name are listed on that page.


Halim is also a Chinese Indonesian surname based on Lim (林).

Given name

Halim is also used as an abbreviated version of Abdul Halim, or independently, as a name given to a male. Examples of that are:

Surname

Halim may also be a last name:

See also

References

  1. Golziher, Ignaz, Muslim Studies, ed. S.M. Stern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 202–203, as cited in Stetkevych, Jaroslav, Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Deconstructing Arabian Myth (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 14.
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