Marjan
مرجانIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Coral; small pearls (Qur'an 55:22)
- About the name
- Marjan is named twice in Surat al-Rahman: coming out of the two seas with the pearl (55:22) and as a likeness for the maidens of Paradise, 'rubies and coral' (55:58). The word reached Arabic through Syriac and Greek, from an Iranian borrowing (Wiktionary).
- For
- A girl
- Origin
- Arabic, Persian
- Other spellings
- Marjana, Marjane, Merjan