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Sebastian
سيباستيانIn Arabic
- Meaning
- From Sebastia, a Greek city; sebastos means 'venerable' (Greek for Augustus)
- About the name
- Sebastia is the city now called Sivas, in central Turkey. Its name came from the Greek sebastos, 'venerable', which was the Greek translation of the Roman imperial title Augustus.
- For
- A boy
- Origin
- Greek, Latin
- Other spellings
- Sebastián, Sébastien
Islamic naming guidance
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources
Wikipedia says the name became widely used because it was the name of Saint Sebastian, a third-century Christian martyr, so it is counted as a name of another religion. The meaning (from the city of Sebastia, 'venerable') is not doctrinal. No source read rules on the name; a scholar's call.
Confidence: low
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