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How is your name pronounced?
Caraj
06/02/03 at 02:05:35
I have gotten to know many of you over the last year and a half. At times I am curious how you pronounce your names. Like how is bhaloo pronounced? And others, if you wouldn't mind I would like to know. Also if you wouldn't mind sharing, where does your name come from  ??? (ie: Paki, Arabic, etc) Like mine, Cara is ..... Car....Care (like in caring) not Car as in an auto                      and...... a..... like the a at the end of zebra And of Irish origin meaning  friend, But I am not at all Irish. Just me being curious     8)
06/02/03 at 02:09:42
Caraj

Re: How is your name pronounced?
ltcorpest2
06/02/03 at 02:23:51
didnt you see jungle book?  bhaloo bear mike as in microphone or it rymes with bike or tike or hike or oh never mind

Re: How is your name pronounced?
theOriginal
06/02/03 at 04:15:23
[slm] lol... bhaloo is pronounced BHAAAA LOOOO not bhu-loo like the Jungle Book  :) You can call me YH (It's short for Your Highness.)   ;D Wasalaam.

Re: How is your name pronounced?
jannah
06/02/03 at 04:21:07
[wlm] I think alot of online people think jannah is like jaa-na as in jan with a -na.. when it's more like jun-nuh as in jungle but pronounce the n and without the gle...   ok free [] if u got that :0

Re: How is your name pronounced?
wardah
06/02/03 at 06:09:39
[slm] [quote]Like mine, Cara is ..... Car....Care (like in caring) not Car as in an auto                      and...... a..... like the a at the end of zebra[/quote] i like the way your names pronounced  :) sounds a bit like the australian accent and i think the australian accent is so  8) [quote]You can call me YH (It's short for Your Highness.)[/quote] :D my names pronounced....take the war, it isn't pronounced the same as war on its own but like the begining of 'world' without the ld and the dah isn't like the d as in the begining of day but a bit like the word the. [quote]Also if you wouldn't mind sharing, where does your name come from   (ie: Paki, Arabic, etc)[/quote] mine is Arabic and it means rose  :-* [wlm]  :-)
06/02/03 at 13:58:58
wardah

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Kathy
06/02/03 at 06:28:33
Kathy Fresh off the boaters... after seeing the scarf: "HUH?" Foreigners who have been here for a bit: "Kat tee" Children who haven't passed 4: "Kackie" Kids that are grown: "Kath" Muslims that don't know me well: "Sister Kathy" My father making a toast at my wedding and refusing to accept my new Muslim name, Huda: "Kathleen" Confused Sisters after i found out that i didn't have to change my name: "Hoda/Kathy" My Hubby: "Honey"  [i]don't even know if he knows my real name....[/i] Ali: "Mom" Ali -when he knows he is in trouble and be better  me: "Mother" Guy with a black eye: "Hey Baby"

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Caraj
06/02/03 at 13:08:36
Kathy you have me laughing so hard.   :D But you know I think it's great you and Mike and YH   ;D that was cool you joined in case even though I knew yours, I imagine some here on the boards from other countries may have wondered about  names our names. But Kathy, you forgot a few. Husband who can't win an arguement Yes  "Dear" Husband who just has to have the last word Yes  "Dear" I really liked your .... guy with black eye       :-/ Jannah I have been mispronouncing your name all along.   :o

Re: How is your name pronounced?
siddiqui
06/02/03 at 13:34:45
[slm] si as in spanish si dd as in ddddad (when your trying to explain something too hard)  :P i as ee  in eeks q sorry no equivalent in english  ;) its almost guttural ui as e in eggs [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
sabri
06/02/03 at 15:49:16
[slm]   sab as in sub, ri as in rip. Not saabri, not sabriii, not sabrye but sabri. [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
A_Stranger
06/02/03 at 18:01:02
[color=Green]"A Stranger":[/color] "A" as in "clAY"   then "StrAN.." as in "(L)ANE" ...not "stran.." like in "STRANded" "...ger" as in "juur" ...not "joor" but "er" - like, "bakER". (if you have a typical brummie accent, it'll be "straynja" :P ) And there you have it. A concise pronounciation of my rare and beautiful name: A Stranger. ;) ;D
06/02/03 at 18:02:40
A_Stranger

Re: How is your name pronounced?
merimda
06/02/03 at 18:24:40
salam, Okay I couldn't resist this topic bc I've noticed that many ppl on this board are not reading my name correctly. My name is not: merimida mermida merimada merminda meranda It's m e r i m d a   If merimda is too complicated just call me meri..^_^

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Nistar
06/02/03 at 18:59:20
[slm] HAHAHHAH...LOL....too funny all of you -- but especially Merimda  :-/  Within 30 seconds of meeting this awesome sis in the real-real world, she was like, "My name btw is pronounced...." I saw the title of this thread and knew you would have posted!  :-* Nistar - knee-STAR (emPHAsis on the star part ;)  )  And the 'r' is rolled a little...a soft little starrrr...

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Ameeraana
06/02/03 at 19:20:25
[slm]  [color=Blue]I am pretty sure Ameera is easy to figure out, right?  but I will give a  [] to anyone who can guess correctly how to pronounce my really name,[/color] [color=Red]Toshiko[/color] :) [color=Green]it means "climb for destiny" in Japanese.  Now, if you meet others named Toshiko their name may not mean the same thing because there are several Chinese characters you can use to spell the name and then the meaning becomes something else.[/color] I also go by Tico, or as some at my work call me, "Sister Mary Toshiko"  :) Ameera
06/02/03 at 19:23:51
Ameeraana

Re: How is your name pronounced?
nouha
06/03/03 at 00:09:12
[slm] my name is pronounced.... nou - ha ... ;)  i dont know how that can be complicated to pronounce...ppl have just butchered my name saying noah...noucha.... crazy stuff... lol nah but for real... this is how u pronounce it... noo - ha..(like ha ha ha). be light on the noo :) its arabic for wise/intelligent its in the quran..surah ta ha ayah 128 :) wasalam nouha:)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Abu_Hamza
06/03/03 at 00:51:00
[slm] The imam's "Allahumma-shfee nuhaa" still resounds in my ears from my last year's trip to New York. :) If you don't understand what I just said, don't worry about it :) My name: Abu Hamza pronounced: A-boo-humm-zah It literally means the "father of Hamza" I dont know what "Hamza" means. Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.
06/03/03 at 00:51:57
Abu_Hamza

Re: How is your name pronounced?
paula
06/03/03 at 02:34:20
[slm] [size=2][font=Verdana][color=blue] :-* This was a fun topic Caraj... (enjoying) .... I'll now have visions of you as very caring   :-[  Well, I guess I did before the post too (smile). [/color][color=black] As for mine.... hmm..... I suppose it may speak for Itself  ;) :       [i]"Simply"[/i] .....   [u]S i s t e r[/u] [/color][/font][/size] [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
se7en
06/03/03 at 03:29:45
as salaamu alaykum, Man I'm more confused than I was before.. I think I've been pronouncing everyone's name wrong :(   bro sabri.. is it like 'subrihh' then? like, soft on the i?  I thought it was subree (as in breeze.. but without the 'ze') bro siddiqui.. ?  it's siddiqui like sid-deeq-key right?  the part about the eggs confused me ??? my name is 'seven'.. like the number :)  I know some people like to use the number 7 for the arabic letter 'haa'.. but I'm not seHen [which means platter :P].. I'm a number!! :) btw -- Hamza means lion.. same as asad or usamah in arabic, or arsalan in persian. wasalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah :-)
06/03/03 at 03:32:04
se7en

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Shahida
06/03/03 at 06:00:43
[slm] Yeah, I've been saying everyone's name wrong as well...good thread Cara:) Me name is pronounced Sha-heeeeeeee-da, not Shaaaaa-hi-da as many people like to say... >:(   Lol, I know my father should have done something else with the spelling, cuz it is confusing...but alhamdulillah  :-* Take care, all you lions, bears, platters, oops NUMBERS :P and yeah, that egg thing got me too. Salam Shahida :-)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Barr
06/03/03 at 06:31:45
Assalamu'alaikum :) [quote]btw -- Hamza means lion.. same as asad or usamah in arabic, or arsalan in persian. [/quote] I once saw in a dictionary that the name Hamzah also means.. barley broth! I think on a different spelling, prolly. Plus, hamzah, depending on the spelling (I think) is also a letter in the Arabic Alphabet. I have this thing with the name Hamzah since the turn of the millenium. Don't ask why. Oh yeah.. I thot usamah means.. little lion? Anyways... until Br Jaihoon, got on the radio, did I realise that I've been pronouncing his name differently... like Jaii-HOON, instead of Jay-HOON. I thought the Arabic phonetics does  not have the "ay" sound as in hay, clay, day. But I guess, maybe that's where the Indian influence sets in? As for my name, its Barr, rhymes with Tar, Car and SARS.. none of which is related to me, dead or alive. And as for my real name, even Muslims mispronounce it... as it has consonents alien to the English phonetics. I finally gave up. I end up introducing myself, how others would have pronounced it. Wassalam :-)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
theOriginal
06/03/03 at 06:58:58
[slm] Sigh...yeah my real name is so mispronounced.  And it suchapity considering how common it is. It's Sarah, btw.  I guess it should be spelt Saarah.  (Rhymes with Car..the auto)... New boss has decided to call me Sarai.  He thinks that "this is the way a nice paki girl who is muslim should spell the name Sarah".   Had a teacher who called me Sirrah the whole year through.   Pakistanis like to say Saira.   Non-Muslims in North American opt for Sayrah. We all know how the french pronounce their 'r's... So basically, it's a no-win situation.  And then my last name.  Won't announce it for everyone, but mannnnnnnnn it drives me up a wall. So therefore, henceforth, herego, I have decided to introduce myself as YH.   Wasalaam.

Ca'ra is cool :)
Maliha
06/03/03 at 09:03:45
[slm] heehhe this is fun:) I think i've been doing pretty good with pple's names:) except Shaaahida :P and Bhuloo  8) Anywhooo, my real name is Maliha... its Muh LEEEE Haaaa (now this is an arabic letter. it's not HA its softer from the throat like hilwa :)  ) anywho i gave up on westerners saying my name right :( i alwayz get variations of: Ma LEE YAAA or MA LAI Heee OR Even the name pronunced with a B, K, N, (where did you get these extra letters ??? ) The Worst day was when I was waiting for my Driver's License and the lady announced to a packed lobby "WOULD MALAYA COME HERE PLEASE" I was mortified :'( Malaya means prostitute in Swahili  >:( I looked around and to my relief no one "got" it...so I walked up to here and whispered "do you know what you just called me???" So we ended spending a good 5 minutes after that, teaching her how to pronounce my name...and had to settle for Ma LEE YA  ::) anywhoo.. my mom once said to a teller who was like "I can never get *your* names right" momz was like "yeah sure! I mean we have to struggle with *your* names all the time!"   :P yeah..i would name my babies something simple like Suhaila  :-[ Sis, Muh Lee  Ha    :-X [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
sabri
06/03/03 at 09:21:00
[quote author=se7en link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=15#16 date=06/03/03 at 03:29:45]as salaamu alaykum, Man I'm more confused than I was before.. I think I've been pronouncing everyone's name wrong :(   bro sabri.. is it like 'subrihh' then? hike, soft on the i?  I thought it was subree (as in breeze.. but without the 'ze') wasalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah :-)[/quote] Actually my name is from sabr as in "wa tawasaw bis sabri wa tawasaw bil marhama" so I guess it would be sobri but for those who cannot pronounce the sad, sabri is fine.

Re: How is your name pronounced?
bhaloo
06/03/03 at 09:42:00
[slm] How embarassing, I've been pronuncing so many people's names wrong.

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Barr
06/03/03 at 10:21:46
[quote]I was mortified   Malaya means prostitute in Swahili  [/quote] Well, I am horrified, petrified, and mummified!  :o Malaya is an old name for Malaysia, before British independance! I mean.. independance from British... hmmm. Anyways, one of my most weirdest encounter was this Irish coursemate of mine, called and spelled my name like this >>> Nuhe (with 2 dots on the u) And pronounced it as Noooh .. OK, I'll reveal my first name.. Its Nur. I wonder wot did she do to my "R". But my second name is a killer. And forget abt my last name, its all butchered.  :'( ~~Barrella~~

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Maliha
06/03/03 at 10:28:55
[quote author=Barr link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=15#23 date=06/03/03 at 10:21:46] Well, I am horrified, petrified, and mummified!  :o Malaya is an old name for Malaysia, before British independance! I mean.. independance from British... hmmm. [/quote] [slm] Barrella  :-* Well it would have to be pronounced Muh Luh Yuh ...Malaysia is softer on the tongue. Anywhooo don't wanna be accused of teaching you all cuss words  :P Sis, Muh Lee Ha  :-) [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Barr
06/03/03 at 10:48:25
[wlm] warahmatullah, :) [quote]Well it would have to be pronounced Muh Luh Yuh ...Malaysia is softer on the tongue.[/quote] Malaysia is soft to the tongue. But Malaya is pronouced as MA LA YA .. ah ah ah. not Muh Lay Ah
06/03/03 at 10:50:45
Barr

Re: How is your name pronounced?
sofia
06/03/03 at 13:22:31
As-salaamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah, [quote]Well, I am horrified, petrified, and mummified! [/quote] :D I think I got most of your pronunciations right, except for sis Merimda. Got that now. :) Sister Toshiko, I'm curious, is it pronounced, Tosh-ko? Just a guess. My name is spelled wrong in English, and pronounced differently according to whoever is saying it. It's not Spanish or Italian or Greek (so-fee-a), although I don't mind that pronunciation. It's not completely Arabic, although it's the same root-letters as the name Safiyyah (with an extra vowel and no shaddah on the Yaa). I don't mind being called that, either, since I like it better and was apparently named after my aunt Safiyyah (don't ask why it was changed). It's not completely Persian or Urdu, although it has the same root-letters as Suf or Sufi (Soofi-yah). I'm confused about it myself, really. My parents call me Soaf-yah and sometimes Soaf-i-yah (first syllable rhyming with soap), and I've finally gotten my co-workers to pronounce it "correctly." But it's spelled (in Arabic/Urdu): Saad-Wow-Faa-Yaa-Taa marbootah. Which could also be pronounced as Soof-yah. Sad, isn't it? I can't even pronounce my own name!  :'(  Cara, you can call me whatever you want. If it really is a derivative of the name Safiyyah, it means purity/righteousness, btw. [Added note: I could be wrong but all of these names may share the same root meaning: Safiyyah, Safi, Sofia, Soofyah, Asfa, Safa, etc.] What I should have been named is: clueless. What's the Arabic word for that? I'm sure I've heard it before, since the English/Urdu/Sindhi/Punjaabi words for it have been directed at me many times. :) Don't get me started on the name Saadia -- also mispronounced as saa-dhee-ya. Yes, we're a family of mispronounced names. Apparently, it's the feminine form of the name Sa'ad. The Arabic spelling is: Saad-Ayn-Daal-Yaa-Taa marbootah, so it should be spelled Sa'adeeyyah (for non-Arabic speakers/readers, there are two distinct 'a' sounds). I think it means "good-fortune" or something, and might be related to Bani Sa'ad, the tribe that Haleemah As-Sa'adeeyyah was from, who nursed Prophet Muhammad when he was a baby, peace be upon him. I can see why it means "good-fortune."   Are you sorry you asked? :)
06/05/03 at 15:47:24
sofia

Re: How is your name pronounced?
readagain
06/03/03 at 13:56:51
[slm] I thought my name cldnt have been simpler..but noooooooo right upon my arrival at JFk , i was proved wrong.. my name is Sana...not as in capital of Yemen! (its actually supposed to be Thanaa..'TH' as in there and anaa..as in....ummmmm 'naa' ??) but since i write it Sana and NOT Thana..(sounds like a bag that way), its pronounced as  Sun- as in sun the huge mass of gasses.. and 'a' as in.....voila  ;D..so its Sun-a(come here son) Sana.... ::) lalalaalalalala ppl call me sonia ..im like  ??? okayyy..and Sayyynaaa...and SAAAna never sana..!! [img]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons/25.gif[/img] :-) p.s thanks again sis Barr for educating me on the use of foreign-to-jannah smileys  8)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Fozia
06/03/03 at 14:11:36
[slm] My name is basically pronounced as it's spelt F-oz-ia. People have called me Foezia Faoziya and one girl at school called me fuzzywuzzy for the entire five years of school  ??? Dunno why I think it's one of the easier names to pronounce. Now as for origin, my mother tells me it's a Persian name. The chairman at the uni I work at happens to be Persian and reckons it's not Persian at all, and a friend of my manager who's Persian reckons it is, confused? I certainly am. I have noticed though that a lot of Pakistani girls are called Fozia but the spelling varies. Oh yes and mother says it means successful or something....not sure about that either  ::) Oh yeah and my last name, don't wanna go there either a bar of chocolate for anyone who pronounces it right tenth time round  :P Wassalaam

Re: How is your name pronounced?
nouha
06/03/03 at 20:47:31
[slm] yes i know what ur talkin about abuhamza..... sigh the retreat...:) wasalam nouha:)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Abu_Hamza
06/03/03 at 22:44:11
[slm] [quote]Hamza means lion[/quote] Subhan Allah, I did not know that.  I always liked the name because of the person of Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib (r.a.).   [quote]As for my name, its Barr, rhymes with Tar, Car and SARS.. none of which is related to me, dead or alive.[/quote] Wow!  As if being corrected on your last name's pronounciation wasn't bad enough :( I thought your name was Burrr ... as in Barrun Kareeem, or Al-Barr (one of Allah's names ... the one that comes after al-Muta'aali and before Al-Tawwab).   I got all others right so far though  :-X
06/03/03 at 22:45:40
Abu_Hamza

Re: How is your name pronounced?
bhaloo
06/03/03 at 23:09:29
[slm] I always wondered what does Barr mean?  Or what does Barrella mean? ??? As for Se7en's name, I had a couple of theories. 1). the 7 was an arabic character, basically seHen. 2). the 7 was seven, so her name expanded using the distributive property: se-seven-en. 3). the 7 was an exponent, so her name was 7^7 = 823543.  823543 is some sort of mathematical encoding of her real name which is 6 characters as well.  at first i thought 823543 corresponded to letters on a phone (i have a computer program for calculating this).   the mind of an engineer at work.... :P

Re: How is your name pronounced?
lala
06/03/03 at 23:11:35
[slm] Its simply ' laaaa la' yes like that show tele tubbies..lala it was just a random few syllables I mouthed upon signing up for this site ::) not very creative:) peace

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Asim
06/04/03 at 03:45:31
Assalaamu alaikum, My name Asim is pronounced AA-Sim. The AA is like the aaa in aaargggh (:)), with the sound emanating from the middle part of the mouth and not the back (kinda hard to pronounce 100% correctly). Sim is like in Simulation or sim city, but the S is heavier like in solstice or sophomore and not like sad or same. My name is Arabic meaning defended/protected or virtous/chaste. It is spelled ayn, alif, Saad, meem. In the U.S. ppl who didn't know me usually called me ayysim. My graduate advisor, who is persian btw, was stuck with as-seem. And many folks in my family call me AA-Sam! (probably because in Urdu you don't put the harakahs, and by default every letter is pronounced with a fathah). The sad thing is that some of these variations have bad meanings and no way close to the beautiful meaning of the correct pronounciation. In my second and last name, the letter i is used for the eee sound, which is opposite to that in my first name, confusing ppl. My full name when pronounced properly is musical, according to my high school principal (this was in pakistan). He usually made fun of it by singing it! (I hated it) I got a couple of pronounciations wrong, including that of Barr! I used to think of it like Abu Hamza, Burr, as in the name of Allah, Al-Barr. So what does baarr mean? Sofia, does your name have the wow in it? That would make it soof-yah and different from the letters in saffiyah? Wasalaam.
06/04/03 at 03:53:18
Asim

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Nomi
06/04/03 at 06:21:05
[slm] all Asim bhai thanks alot for saving me from the trouble to explain to others how to pronounce my name, i could never have explained like u did  ... ppl mine is ditto :) Simply_Sister wrote: [quote] mine is simply pronounced as SIMPLY sister [/quote] mashAllah... i dunno why but i really think high [i](differently)[/i] of ladies who dont give out their real names ! I came to know that in the Noble Qur'an Allah [swt] only mentioned the name of one woman i.e. Maryam (Mary [peace be upon her]), scholars say that Allah did it only for explicitly saying that She was mother of Hazrat eesa (Jesus --peace be upon him) and neither of them were gods but just humans, as chase as they come otherwise Allah wouldn't have even mentioned the name of even a single lady in the Final Scripture aa-sim zeph-err *************
06/04/03 at 07:58:00
Nomi

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Barr
06/04/03 at 11:33:49
Assalamu'alaikum :) [quote]I got a couple of pronounciations wrong, including that of Barr! I used to think of it like Abu Hamza, Burr, as in the name of Allah, Al-Barr. So what does baarr mean?  [/quote] After a confusing day, trying to sort out how you brothers pronounce my name... If Burr rhymes with the coat that animals wear.. than, I say... that ain't my name. Its bARR, from Allah's name, Al Barr. ah ah. arr arr not urr urr. So... putting the benefit fo the doubt...Maybe, we're pronouncing the same way.. just a lil differ on the spelling, eh? :) [quote]I always wondered what does Barr mean?  Or what does Barrella mean?[/quote] Al-Barr means... The source of all goodness... in one translation. Barr, is a name after that name. Barrella is a morphed name, coined after my sad story abt my search for the perfect shoe, coz I just don't wanna settle for less... and no, I'm not shoosy. Its written somewhere on the board. I think. Cara, did U guess this thread is gonna be this way? :) Wassalam! :)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Caraj
06/04/03 at 12:05:30
[quote author=Barr link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=30#35 date=06/04/03 at 11:33:49]Assalamu'alaikum :) Cara, did U guess this thread is gonna be this way? :) Wassalam! :)[/quote] Actually I am tickled, cause I have sincerely wanted to know how to pronounce these names properly. Howeverrrrrrrrrr   ;D  There are a few who didn't respond yet, shall we make up a WANTED  List   :P Hanif for one, is that han  as in hand without the d and 'if 'as in 'if' he responds I will be happy.   :-/ I would like to know how Mr-Bean came about that name if he is willing to tell us. Thank you everyone, I sure learned a lot (Like I have no pronoucation skills  :-X  0
06/04/03 at 15:58:54
Caraj

Re: How is your name pronounced?
theOriginal
06/04/03 at 12:05:45
[slm] SO just so I'm clear...it's BARR, as in BAR, as in the BAR exam?   I pronounced it Burr...sad, I know.

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Nomi
06/04/03 at 12:18:55
[slm] sorry for being such a chatterbox but, my nick name is pronounced as "Know me" -> Nomi, simpul isn't it .. heh Asim Zafar

Re: How is your name pronounced?
nouha
06/04/03 at 12:24:50
[slm] so whos name does everyone like the most...... i like the way lady_murasaki_sa sounds... its SO cool :) the way it comes out of your mouth..ok lemme stop  :P wasalam nouha:)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Caraj
06/04/03 at 15:59:46
[quote author=nouha link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=30#39 date=06/04/03 at 12:24:50] [slm] so whos name does everyone like the most...... i like the way lady_murasaki_sa sounds... its SO cool :) the way it comes out of your mouth..ok lemme stop  :P wasalam nouha:)[/quote] How does she pronounce it?

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Ameeraana
06/04/03 at 18:09:14
[slm] lady_murasaki Murasaki is pronounced    moo (like a cow says) ra (roll the tongue on the "r" the a is then like the a in fawn) sa (just an s with that same a as in fawn) ki (a normal k sound with the i pronounced like the ee in feet) murasaki is japanese for purple.   And Sr sofia gets a big []  hey maybe another []  --you know how to pronounce my real name--Toshiko  you are right, the i is not pronounced!! Ameera

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Maliha
06/05/03 at 09:23:12
[quote author=Nomi link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=30#34 date=06/04/03 at 06:21:05][slm] all mashAllah... i dunno why but i really think high [i](differently)[/i] of ladies who dont give out their real names ! I came to know that in the Noble Qur'an Allah [swt] only mentioned the name of one woman i.e. Maryam (Mary [peace be upon her]), scholars say that Allah did it only for explicitly saying that She was mother of Hazrat eesa (Jesus --peace be upon him) and neither of them were gods but just humans, as chase as they come otherwise Allah wouldn't have even mentioned the name of even a single lady in the Final Scripture aa-sim zeph-err *************[/quote] [slm] Seriously Nomi, I really don't know how your mind associates things and draws conclusions based on totally senseless correlations  ::) I mean really! sisters who use their "real" name are somehow less in your regard? and that somehow Allah mentioning only one name in the Quran is supposed to be the daleel for your irrelevant post? Come on! let me ask you one question? What about brothers signing off their Full Name? are they "less" in your regard than those who hide behind pseudo names? Are they less "Mutaqee" ? oh yeah..that's different right? Cuz Allah mentioned more than "one" brother in the Quran? aghhhh.... May Allah guide us through Real Life experiences that will open our hearts and minds to encompass a larger vision and a higher purpose (Amin). Sis, who signs her real name! [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Barr
06/05/03 at 09:24:28
[slm] warahmatullah :) [quote]mashAllah... i dunno why but i really think high (differently) of ladies who dont give out their real names ! [/quote] hmmm...Its interesting that you mentioned this. what abt brothers who remain incognito? do U have the same sentiments? [quote]I came to know that in the Noble Qur'an Allah [SubHana Wa Ta`ala] only mentioned the name of one woman i.e. Maryam (Mary [peace be upon her]), scholars say that Allah did it only for explicitly saying that She was mother of Hazrat eesa (Jesus --peace be upon him) and neither of them were gods but just humans, as chase as they come [u]otherwise Allah wouldn't have even mentioned the name of even a single lady in the Final Scripture[/u][/quote] I'm not sure how this relates   ???  to the name issue. Also I've not come across any tafsir, abt the underlined. Do U have any reference? Wassalam
06/05/03 at 09:29:04
Barr

Re: How is your name pronounced?
paula
06/05/03 at 09:28:32
[slm][size=2][font=book antiqua][color=Navy] [quote]Brother "know me" wrote: Quote: mine is simply pronounced as SIMPLY sister   [/quote] :-[  You have a doubt my name is simply "sister" ? smile........ :D I have to laugh here though..... were you around when I waltzed into Madina baring my bold American name & landed knee deep into a controversial topic on names themselves ? ....... lol... hence .. "the veil"  ;) ....... smile.... (don't mind the slight exaggeration there) I actually got the idea of my alias from one of the nice articles one of our dear sisters provided in that thread though....... Masha' Allah [/color][/size][/font][font=book antiqua] [wlm] [color=navy] ((however... aside from that.... I have heard it expressed by others as well that women should be careful in expressing their names... how substantial that might be I'm curious to hear about too ))[/color][/font]
06/05/03 at 09:37:55
paula

Re: How is your name pronounced?
paula
06/05/03 at 09:46:35
[slm][size=2][font=Verdana][color=Navy] Sister Mystic your teacher qualities shine even through the miles & this board. [quote]Haaaa (now this is an arabic letter. it's not HA its softer from the throat like hilwa   )[/quote] I've had people face to face try to get the throat sound accross to me.... lol.... needless to say...... it was effective enough for them to just laugh. I read your explanation & was sooo impressed .... let's see if they laugh now  ;).......lol ( little joke there ).. but I'll be working on my pronunciation (smile) [/color][/font][/size] [wlm]
06/05/03 at 10:51:36
paula

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Yasmeena
06/05/03 at 14:04:48
[slm] [quote author=Ameera link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=0#12 date=06/02/03 at 19:20:25] [slm]  [color=Blue]I am pretty sure Ameera is easy to figure out, right?  but I will give a  [] to anyone who can guess correctly how to pronounce my really name,[/color] [color=Red]Toshiko[/color] Ameera[/quote] I lived on Okinawa when in high school, my da was in the US Army, and I found that even they have different pronounciations for the same words sometimes. I'll give it a go... ;) (phonetically) toe-she-ko. Depending on where I was on Okinawa and who I talked to, the stress was put either on the "shi" or the "ko" but mostly on the "ko". How close was I ??? ??? Yasmeena [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Nomi
06/05/03 at 14:10:35
[slm] all Mystic wrote [quote] based on totally senseless correlations, I mean really! sisters who use their "real" name are somehow less in your regard? [/quote] Asim Zafar wrote [quote] mashAllah... i dunno why but i really think high (differently)...... [/quote] [size=1] Mystic wrote [quote] based on totally senseless correlations, I mean really! sisters who use their "real" name are somehow less in your regard? [/quote] [/size] Asim Zafar wrote [quote] mashAllah... i dunno why but i really think high [size=3](differently)........[/size] [/quote] infact.................... i do, but differently :) ... its like, i have talked to Madina Wrestler but i havn't seen or met him, so i think high of him [size=3](differently)[/size] I know many nice people, some of them may be even more impressive than those who i havn't seen or met but even then i think high of those guys who impress me provided i havn't met or seen em, [size=3](differently)[/size] :) in the same way practicing ladies whose real name i dont know are thought high of by me [size=3](differently)[/size] :) and because i dint know, until only recently, that in Nobel Qur'an Allah has mentioned name of only one lady so i just shared it with people, i think you knew it already ?! and i recall that in one of the posts someone warned brothers not to call sisters "emotional" okay... i wont :) ....... peace Asim Zafar [move]:) differently :)[/move]
06/05/03 at 16:45:10
Nomi

Re: How is your name pronounced?
eleanor
06/05/03 at 15:39:25
[slm] okaaay.. bet you all think you know how to pronounce my name right?? muahahahahahaaaaaa well the Yanks would say EL (as in El-Paso) EN (as in the letter"N") OAR (as in row row row your boat = EL EN OAR  - same as Eleanor Roosevelt, right? WRong! In the green rolling hills of the Celtic homeland my name is pronounced thus: EL (as in El-Paso) EN (as in the letter "N") UH (as in "uh... do I know you) and then R = EL EN UHR and go easy on the uh - it's more swallowed so when someone is talking fast I am called EL ENR and all the emphasis goes on the EL okay? gottit? good  :P now try telling that to a bunch of germans who make r in their throat and end up calling me EL EE AAA NOHR or EL AY NA  :'( you know what to tell people like that? Call me Elli  8) luckily my surname is of german origin so with slight pronounciation variation it's no probs for the gerries. I don't even have to spell it  :-X
06/05/03 at 15:40:32
eleanor

Re: How is your name pronounced?
paula
06/05/03 at 19:20:40
[slm][size=2][font=Book Anitqua][color=Navy] [quote]Brother Asim wrote: mashAllah... i dunno why but i really think high (differently)........  [/quote] Masha'Allah I don't think we could have given a beter lesson on PERCEPTION if we all had planned it..... smile  (take that light heartedly there). In all honesty I've thought for quite awhile now that perception is a subject that should be discussed more often.  Views change depending on the point your standing at. ((similar to the very concepts of vision itself such as in the "Why is the Sky Blue? thread". The topic itself always reconfirms for me inside that Allah(swt) truly is All-Seer, All-Knower, All-Wise....Alhamdu lillah. It reminds me how I need to myself always strive to place my trust in him.   Then the topic of perception itself leads to all the other associations that filter from there..... such as judgement, limitations & so forth. (( :-[ the humanistic here, contemplating again ))[/color][/font][/size] [wlm]
06/05/03 at 21:39:34
paula

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Emerald
06/05/03 at 22:35:33
Okay I started reading the threads in this post and started wondering when would they would ever end - not that I don't enjoy reading all your comments, but I mean c'mon~whoa! I clicked my back button and saw that there were 4 pages and 49 posts!!!   :o  ( Yea..no way I'm reading them all....I'd be up all night!  :P ) Then I thought, hey I think I'm the only one left who didn't put up a post in here...and that's just not right!  :D So here it is. My name is Emerald (not for real though) and it's pronounced 'EM' like the 'M' in M&M's/ rap musician Eminem, hehehe THEN "RULD" like saying world but replacing the "w" with an "r".... :-/ See, it's not rocket science! ;)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Caraj
06/06/03 at 02:18:09
[quote author=Emerald link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=45#50 date=06/05/03 at 22:35:33]Okay I started reading the threads in this post and started wondering when would they would ever end - not that I don't enjoy reading all your comments, but I mean c'mon~whoa! So here it is. My name is Emerald (not for real though) and it's pronounced 'EM' like the 'M' in M&M's/ rap musician Eminem, hehehe THEN "RULD" like saying world but replacing the "w" with an "r".... :-/ See, it's not rocket science! ;)[/quote] Emerald, Sis, chill, I am so thrilled this went this way and not cause I was the one to do the thread. I sincerely wanted to know. Not rocket science? I imagine names like Emerald and Kathy and Eleanor are as alien to some in other countries as Wardah, Siddigui, Nouha are to some of us. Gosh there isn't a C or P in the arabic alaphabet. I even pronounced Eleanors name wrong. Did it like a Yank   ::) Anyway thank you to those who did respond I certainly appreciated it and am kind of glad I know how to say names right. You read about peoples lives, hopes, goals, dreams and problems and get to know them over a year or mores time and goodness, I couldn't even say their names. But I do now   ;)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
jannah
06/06/03 at 03:03:31
[wlm] wow i always miss nomi's controversial posts... hmm [quote]I came to know that in the Noble Qur'an Allah [SubHana Wa Ta`ala] only mentioned the name of one woman i.e. Maryam (Mary [peace be upon her])[/quote] ?? I believe there are 3... care to guess? Also there is only one companion mentioned by name in the quran... a free [] to the one who can find it!! it's a hard one... :)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Tesseract
06/06/03 at 04:23:26
Assalamu 'alaikum,       [quote]?? I believe there are 3... care to guess? [/quote] 1- Mariam (AS), mother of Jesus (AS). 2- Sarah (AS), wife of Fir'aun.            Can't recall, who is the 3rd one.       [quote]Also there is only one companion mentioned by name in the quran... a free  to the one who can find it!! it's a hard one...  [/quote]             Zaid bin Haarith :). I always have a 12/24 pack Pepsi in my car's trunk. In an attempt to cut down on the addiction, I am limiting myself to one can per day these days, so free bebzi passed onto some other pepsi addict on the board.  8)      Why my posts don't show the smileys in quoted part? Wassalam.

Re: How is your name pronounced?
ikani
06/06/03 at 04:58:12
[slm] My name 'Ikani' is pronounced [i]ee-kaa-nee[/i]. It simply means 'maybe' in Igala, my mother tongue, 'cos my mum had two sons before me who died as babies and my parents figured, "maybe God shall let this one live". A lot of people bear the name for similar reasons. I've discovered so many people find it difficult to pronounce - so they've another choice, my other name's Ismail. Just for the fun of it I searched the web for this name and came up with the following interesting information: http://japanesefood.about.com/library/pictures/blikani.htm  :D http://www.nunavut.com/traditionalknowledge/vol3/glossary.html#i  :-[ http://googlism.com/index.htm?ism=ikani&type=1  :) (you guys try this 'search engine')

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Nomi
06/06/03 at 07:47:53
[slm] all All the respect in the world for you ppl as i really like islamic values of yours :) (always been like this) [quote] So here it is. My name is Emerald (not for real though) [/quote] heh, you know what... i respected you too, always, but i respect you differently now :P [quote] Sarah (AS), wife of Fir'aun. [/quote] i dont think that her name was mentioned !! may be its mentioned in some tafseer but as far as i can recall, she was reffered to as the wife of Fir'aun. [quote] wow i always miss nomi's controversial posts... [/quote] Bro Hanif: All the experienced campaigners seems to be joining hands against someone :) and you arn't even bothering to give me some tips :P Asim Zafar
06/06/03 at 08:57:54
Nomi

Re: How is your name pronounced?
sunset
06/06/03 at 08:08:29
[slm] can anyone pronounce my name correctly? :) hmm...maybe i should give some clue here ... 1) (sun) is like the sun pronounced in sunday or sunflower or sunrise 2) (set) is like the set in set aside or tea set not so tough eh? ;) my real name is the tough one :) ..when i was in high school, one of my teachers called me tequila :o when she was handing over my book cause she thinks my name sounds similar to that... I was so annoyed ..I rubbed off my name on the book and wrote the name again (triple the size of previous one ;D) I think she got the message cause after that she started calling my real name  :D   few years later, a local popular band produced a song and its called...... my name :-[  oh noo... I was so embarassed about that ... people started teasing me when the song was on air ... :'( my mom told me bout the history of my name :)... my parents got my name from their visit to a local zoo ;D nope... it wasnt a name from any animals :P but they met a young girl at the zoo...the girl was so cute and she has very long hair so they asked for her name. My parents both agreed that if their first child is a daughter, she will have that name (thats me :D) Fuffff... I told you my real name is not as easy especially it has its own history ;) [wlm] :-) p/s hmmm...  i wonder if a walk at the zoo can be included in the romantic lists... :)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Fozia
06/06/03 at 08:36:18
[slm] [quote author=Bulwark of Islam link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=45#53 date=06/06/03 at 04:23:26] 1- Mariam (AS), mother of Jesus (AS). 2- Sarah (AS), wife of Fir'aun.            Can't recall, who is the 3rd one. [/quote] 3) Bilquis the queen of Sheba. Wassalaam

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Maliha
06/06/03 at 08:40:34
[slm] Wasn't Firauns wife called Asiya??? Nomi I have one expression for you... ::) Sis, Maliha :-) [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Fozia
06/06/03 at 08:53:25
[quote author=Mystic link=board=bebzi;num=1054530335;start=45#58 date=06/06/03 at 08:40:34] Wasn't Firauns wife called Asiya??? quote] [slm] I thought so too, I believe Sara was Ibrahim's (AS) wife, was she not mentioned in the quran, you know when the malaika bring her husband glad tidings of a child ??? ??? ??? Wasalaam
06/06/03 at 08:54:18
Fozia

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Taalibatul_ilm
06/06/03 at 08:54:13
[slm] The brother is correct, the only woman mentioned by name in the Qur'an is Maryam. Bilqees is not mentioned by name, but is referred to as a woman ruler once, and thereafter "she" (surah An-Naml). Other women are mentioned as wife of: Wife of Fir'own (Yes, her name is Aasiya) Wife of Lut Wife of Nooh (At-Tahreem) Wife of 'Imraan Wife of Ibraheem These are the ones I can think of right now.
06/06/03 at 09:25:44
Taalibatul_ilm

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Nomi
06/06/03 at 10:18:58
[slm] [quote] The brother is correct [/quote] Can you plz make that a Zam Zam Cola :)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
siddiqui
06/06/03 at 11:12:29
[slm] [quote]These are the ones I can think of right now[/quote] There are refrences to Ayiesha R.a and the mother of prophet musa pubh(mentioned as ummi moosa) in the quraan too but as the bro said only Marayam is mentioned by name make that two colas please though I would prefer a coke  ;) [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
readagain
06/06/03 at 13:24:23
[slm] ummmmm are we forgetting bibi Zulekha ??? (hadrat Yousef as 's wife) cos after she became a mo'min he did marry her. I believe she is mentioned by name. and what about bibi Hawwa ?? actually im not sure if her name was mentioned hmmmmmmm  ::)

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Barr
06/06/03 at 13:27:20
Assalamu'alaikum :-) [quote]and i recall that in one of the posts someone warned brothers not to call sisters "emotional" okay... i wont [/quote] I think there's a difference between being emotional, and being expressive and emotive. Regardless, let us try to listen to what the person is saying, not how he/she says it. [quote]i dunno why but i really think high (differently) of ladies who dont give out their real names ![/quote] How we perceive people are based on knowledge and information of the person, and other related input as well as our experiences. So, if you say that you think of sisters highly albeit "differently" due to their mysterious identity, then, it makes the mind wonder on your yardstick of respecting others. It seems, as if not releasing one's true name, is the factor that makes a difference, rather than character of the person, significantly known to you (regardless of whether you've met the person or not). Or perhaps, your experiences have made you more inclined to think highly albeit "differently", of sisters who refused to reveal their real name? This is how some of us (or me, rather) understand from what you wrote, and hence, triggered some responses above. This however, can be miscontrued, as I may have misunderstood you. (Trying to listen what you're saying :)) Allahua'lam [quote]scholars say that Allah did it only for explicitly saying that She was mother of Hazrat eesa (Jesus --peace be upon him) and neither of them were gods but just humans, as chase as they come [u]otherwise Allah wouldn't have even mentioned the name of even a single lady in the Final Scripture[/u] [/quote] Allahua'lam, why Allah only mentions Maryam's (a.s) name, whereas only mentions the role and character of other women in the Qur'an. But your comment above (esp underlined) makes it seem as if, mentioning of names in the Qur'an are based on gender. Of which, I disagree. Though I hear, ya, akhi... Maryam is the only woman, whose name is mentiond in the Qur'an... eventhough there are many other women (and men), from those promised jannah to those promised jahannam whose names are not mentioned, but whose stories eternalised in the Qur'an. Allahua'lam  :-)
06/06/03 at 13:29:03
Barr

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Nomi
06/06/03 at 13:58:17
Assalamo Alaikum all With all due respect Sis Barr (and i always pronounced that right :) ) you missed something that i wrote so lemme quote you wrote [quote] So, if you say that you think of sisters highly albeit "differently" due to their mysterious identity, then, it makes the mind wonder on your yardstick of respecting others. It seems, as if not releasing one's true name, is the factor that makes a difference, rather than character of the person, significantly known to you (regardless of whether you've met the person or not).   [/quote] i wrote [quote] in the same way [size=3]practicing ladies[/size] whose real name i dont know are thought high of by me (differently)  :) [/quote] [i]the words in bold text[/i] need i say more ... i think yes :) [quote] This however, can be miscontrued, as I may have misunderstood you. [/quote] exactly.. verify it by going to the previous page [quote] eventhough there are many other women (and men), from those promised jannah to those promised jahannam whose names are not mentioned, but whose stories eternalised in the Qur'an. [/quote] Ofcourse my sis !!! totally agreed... i wonder what made you think that i'm thinking otherwise.... oh so u were just sharing,... thanks and jazakumullah ah..... but i fail to understand that what got you sisters so much annoyed. heh :) reminds me of the thread why do women grumble ... hey but i was on sister's side in that thread ..... !! [quote] The brother is correct   Can you plz make that a Zam Zam Cola :) [/quote] Yea now i really need that coz things are getting heated up in here :) Asim Zafar
NS
06/06/03 at 18:52:53
Nomi

Re: How is your name pronounced?
siddiqui
06/06/03 at 19:20:46
[slm] Bro does Nomi have something to do with sleepy ( naum =sleep) :P If so then  jaago Asim pyaare jaago ....................... have a [] cola loaded with caffeine to keep you awake  ;) [wlm]

Re: How is your name pronounced?
mutmainnah
06/07/03 at 06:03:35
Salaamm. As I know. My nname is from Quran..There is an ayah. I dont remember which one. My Real names has another meaning.. :-[ .Jak...Was Salamu Alikum...

Re: How is your name pronounced?
Nafisa
06/07/03 at 11:53:41
[slm] My name is pronounced [i]na-fee-sa [/i]with emphasis on the [i]fee[/i].  although i don't know if it's the proper way to pronounce it cos my dad said it's [i][u]naf[/u]-i-sa [/i]with emphasis on the [i]naf[/i].   altho i don't like it that way cos naf is a slang word in Britain so to emphasize the naf part would mean a lot of teasing at school. but my family say it that way so it's just all very confusing while my friends say nafeesa.   i don't mind which pronounciation is made.   :)

How is your name FULL pronounced?
Nomi
06/07/03 at 16:15:10
[slm] Okay ppl how about a litle twist in the topic!! How is your full name pronounced? I think this will be interesting coz many of us may have a looong full name :). I once watched this movie named "The Thirteenth Warrior" (a historic movie) bro Antonio was "the" hero, he was playing the role of an Arab Ambassador to some scandanavian country. Here is the funny part, when that Arab Ambassador gave them their name as "Sultan ibn Zubair ibn Taha ibn yousaf", they ended up calling him "ibn" :P .... lol @ "ibn"  :D Well so much for the movie, my full name is looong :) and it'll be fun to know yours :P. Mine is Asim ibn Zafar ibn Asad ibn Innayat ... ibn Adam ... heh j/k :) but infact its [center]Mirza Asim Zafar Baig ... phew :P ... say what ?[/center] waiting to know yours "mir" as in mirror "za" "aa-sim" "zeph-err" "bay`g" (g pronounced as in good) :)
06/07/03 at 17:51:04
Nomi

Re: How is your name pronounced?
sal
06/08/03 at 17:41:34
salam aleykum CARAJ I dont think you  face any diffiulty to  pronounce my name  . it is  so easy  to say sal where ever you  start it from gives  the same sound JUST DONT SAY SEL IT IS SAL  BUT  NO  MATTER  TO PUSH IT    SAAAAAAL if i am standing far  away. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
06/08/03 at 17:45:17
sal

Re: How is your name pronounced?
deenb4dunya
06/08/03 at 18:04:57
Assalamu Alaikum, [quote]?? I believe there are 3... care to guess? [/quote]] Hmmm... I was pretty sure that the only female in the Qur'aan is Mariam  8) Asia, the wife of fir'aun is called [italic]imra-ata fir'aun[/italic] Wallaahu Ta'aala A'lam. Wassalamu Alaikum, Deen :-)
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