Halim (name) explained
Halim or Haleem (Arabic: حليم ) is an Arabic masculine given name which means gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger, "what we call a civilized man".[1]
In Islam, Al-Halīm is one of the 99 names of God, with that meaning.
Abdul Halim or Abdel Halim means servant of God, as thus described, and bearers of that name are listed on that page.
Halim is also a Chinese Indonesian surname based on Lim (林).
Given name
Halim is also used as an abbreviated version of Abdul Halim, or independently, as a name given to a male. Examples of that are:
- Halim Bukhari, Bangladeshi Deobandi scholar
- Halim Barakat, Syrian novelist
- Halim Benmabrouk, Algerian footballer
- Haleem Brohi, Pakistani author
- Haleem Chaudhri, Bengali cricketer
- Halim El-Dabh, American composer
- Halim Haryanto, Indonesian / American badminton player
- Halim Perdanakusuma, Indonesian aviator and national hero, after whom Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport is named
- Halim Medaci, Algerian footballer
- Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier
- Halim Saad, Malaysian businessman
Surname
Halim may also be a last name:
See also
Notes and References
- Golziher, Ignaz, Muslim Studies, ed. S.M. Stern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 202–203, as cited in Stetkevych, Jaroslav, Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Deconstructing Arabian Myth (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 14.
