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Hannibal

حنبعلIn Arabic

Meaning
Punic 'may Baal be gracious to me'; the Carthaginian general
About the name
Hannibal (247 to between 183 and 181 BC) commanded Carthage's armies in the Second Punic War and invaded Italy by crossing the Alps with North African war elephants. Wiktionary lists the Arabic form حنبعل as a Carthaginian given name.
For
A boy
Origin
Other
Other spellings
Anibal, Annibal, Hanibal

Islamic naming guidance

  • Discouraged
  • Scholars differ about this name.

Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.

Name of a deity worshipped besides God: disliked

The name is built on Baal, a Phoenician and Punic god, so it falls under names of deities worshipped besides Allah. A scholar's call: no ruling on this exact name was read.

Confidence: low

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