girl name · Source-indexed record
Nashwan
نشوان
Nashwan is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means delirious, drunk, ecstatic. It is the name of a famous Yemeni scholoar, Nashwan al-Humairi (died 573 Hijri) and Nashwan bint Abdullah al-Kinaniyyah (died 880 Hijri), who is a female scholar of hadith.
- Arabic spelling
- نشوان
- Pronunciation
- NAHSH-wahnAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- ArabicSource-stated
- Gender
- girl
- First letter
- N
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Nashwan
Nashwan is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a female name. The source records its meaning as “Nashwan is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means delirious, drunk, ecstatic. It is the name of a famous Yemeni scholoar, Nashwan al-Humairi (died 573 Hijri) and Nashwan bint Abdullah al-Kinaniyyah (died 880 Hijri), who is a female scholar of hadith.”. Its origin label is stated directly in the source text. 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.