Karim
كريمIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Generous, noble
- For
- A boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- Other spellings
- Kareem, Karime, Kerim
Islamic naming guidance
- Permissible
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources
Al-Karim is also a name of Allah. By the IslamQA principle, a person may bear it without 'al-' when it is meant in its ordinary sense; the form 'al-Karim' is for Allah alone.
Confidence: high
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