girl name · Source-indexed record
Shafaq
شفق
Shafaq is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means sympathy, affection, pity, tenderness. It also means twilight, the redness that appears in the sky before the sun comes up and after it goes down.
- Arabic spelling
- شفق
- Pronunciation
- SHAH-fahkAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- ArabicSource-stated
- Gender
- girl
- First letter
- S
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Shafaq
Shafaq is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a female name. The source records its meaning as “Shafaq is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means sympathy, affection, pity, tenderness. It also means twilight, the redness that appears in the sky before the sun comes up and after it goes down.”. 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.