# معجم الأسماء العربية (bel-arabi.com)

> bel-arabi.com is an Arabic-first dictionary of personal names. Every entry pairs a name with its
> documented meaning taken from classical Arabic lexicons (المتقن في الأسماء العربية، قاموس الأسماء
> العربية والمعربة، لسان العرب، القاموس المحيط), plus the linguistic root, the Islamic naming ruling,
> notable bearers, and the classical Abjad (حساب الجمل) value. The site is fully static, RTL, and
> contains roughly 10,151 documented names.

## Main sections

- [Homepage](https://bel-arabi.com/): search entry point, popular names, and an inline Abjad calculator.
- [Boy names](https://bel-arabi.com/boys): paginated index of ~7,039 male names.
- [Girl names](https://bel-arabi.com/girls): paginated index of ~3,111 female names.
- [Quranic names](https://bel-arabi.com/quranic): names mentioned in the Qur'an and names of prophets.
- [Names by letter](https://bel-arabi.com/letter): browse all names alphabetically (28 Arabic letters).
- [Search](https://bel-arabi.com/search): client-side search over a JSON index of every name.
- [Abjad calculator](https://bel-arabi.com/abjad): classical Hijri letter-value calculator.
- [كلمات مسهمة](https://bel-arabi.com/كلمات-مسهمة): مسهمة يومية تفاعلية (جدول شبكة حروف + تلميحات) تحسب داخل المتصفح حسب تاريخ اليوم
- [مسهمة اليوم](https://bel-arabi.com/كلمات-مسهمة/اليوم): المسهمة اليومية الجارية
- [المسهمات القديمة](https://bel-arabi.com/puzzles): أرشيف مسابقات المسهمة العربية السابقة (صور وجداول تفاعلية)
- [About](https://bel-arabi.com/about): the lexicographic sources and editorial policy.
- [Contact](https://bel-arabi.com/contact): corrections and name suggestions.

## Puzzle pages

Each puzzle has a canonical URL of the form `https://bel-arabi.com/puzzles/<slug>` (for example
`https://bel-arabi.com/puzzles/arabic-crossword-76` or `https://bel-arabi.com/puzzles/abu-salma-30`).
A puzzle page contains the printable grid image, the numbered clue list with checkable answer
inputs, a progress indicator, and a link to the original published puzzle. The grid images and
clue lists are republished from مدونة الكلمات المسهمة (chabaka84.blogspot.com) with attribution.

## Name pages

Each name has a dedicated page with a canonical URL of the form
`https://bel-arabi.com/name/<slug>` (for example `https://bel-arabi.com/name/yaseen`).

A name page contains:

- the name in Arabic and its transliteration in other languages,
- the documented meaning(s) and, where relevant, the Qur'anic reference,
- the linguistic root (الجذر اللغوي),
- the Abjad value (حساب الجمل),
- the Islamic ruling on naming (حكم التسمية),
- personality traits, nicknames, notable bearers, and poetic verses,
- the source lexicons the entry was drawn from.

## URL conventions

- Pagination is static: `https://bel-arabi.com/boys/2`, `https://bel-arabi.com/girls/3`,
  `https://bel-arabi.com/letter/<letter>/2`.
- Letter pages use the Arabic letter directly: `https://bel-arabi.com/letter/م`.
- A machine-readable index of every name is available at
  [https://bel-arabi.com/search-index.json](https://bel-arabi.com/search-index.json) with the fields
  `n` (name), `s` (slug), `m` (meaning), `r` (root), `g` (gender), `o` (origin), `a` (abjad value),
  and `e` (English transliteration).
- The sitemap is available at [https://bel-arabi.com/sitemap-index.xml](https://bel-arabi.com/sitemap-index.xml).

## Usage notes

- Content is in Modern Standard Arabic, right-to-left; Arabic text in the JSON index is not escaped.
- Abjad values follow the classical Hijri letter values (ا=1, ب=2, ج=3, د=4, ه=5, و=6, ز=7, ح=8,
  ط=9, ي=10, ك=20, ل=30, م=40, ن=50, س=60, ع=70, ف=80, ص=90, ق=100, ر=200, ش=300, ت=400, ث=500,
  خ=600, ذ=700, ض=800, ظ=900, غ=1000) and ignore vowel marks.
- Attributions belong to the original lexicons; please cite the source entry when reusing material.

## Optional

- [Privacy policy](https://bel-arabi.com/privacy)
- [Terms of use](https://bel-arabi.com/terms)
- [Sitemap](https://bel-arabi.com/sitemap-index.xml)