boy name · Source-indexed record
Arafat
عرفات
A plain twelve miles south west of Makkah where pilgrims spend a day performing special worship of Allah during the Hajj.
- Arabic spelling
- عرفات
- Pronunciation
- ah-RAH-fahtAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- ArabicLinguistic inference
- Gender
- boy
- First letter
- A
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Arafat
Arafat is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a male name. The source records its meaning as “A plain twelve miles south west of Makkah where pilgrims spend a day performing special worship of Allah during the Hajj.”. Its origin label is inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Its reader-friendly phonetic spelling is generated deterministically from the published transliteration and should be reviewed for names with complex or region-specific pronunciation.
Meaning and Arabic spelling are sourced from the Muslim Names Dataset or, where provided, the record-specific provenance URL. Origin labels are source-stated where available or transparently inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Phonetic respellings are generated reading guides, not native-speaker recordings. See Sources & methodology for data limitations.