Abrār
أَبْرَار
Say it ab-RAAR
The righteous
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- b-r-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Abrar, Abraar
Meaning & source
The righteous: “the plural of barr is abrār”; the barr is one who does birr, goodness and dutifulness. The Qurʾān asks to die “with the abrār” (3:193).
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وجمعُ البَرّ الأَبْرارُ، وجمعُ الْبَارِّ البَرَرَةُ
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.