| How to pronounce Farhad | FU + pRay + HAnD Each block is a syllable. Thick black border indicates stress/emphasis. Other pronunciations are acceptable. |
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| Original Spelling | فرهاد How to write Farhad in the original language, such as Arabic or Persian |
This is NOT a Quranic name, but Muslims can use it since it has a good or neutral meaning.
Meaning of Farhad
Farhad is a Persian name for boys that means “helper”. It is the name of a character in the Persian story of Shirin and Farhad, which is a love story similar to Romeo and Juliet in its tragic ending.
Reader Comments:
on Saturday 11th of August 2018 12:43:50 AM
Farhad is not an ISLAMIC/Arabic name … it is a Persian name and before the story of Shirin and Farhad, (1)
on Friday 26th of March 2021 10:48:54 PM
Farhad is neither of an Islamic name nor of helper. Per Encyclopedia of Iranica, it means ‘gained’, ‘merited’.
A.i. (single-stem full names): prḥt(k)Fra-hāt(ak) (no. A.3), Gk. Phraátēs from OIr. *Frahāta- “Gained, Earned”; prnḥw Farnaxw (no. A.4; with prnḥwntkFarnxwandak) from OIr. *Farnah-vant- “Being full of splendor”; Arm. Varaz from OIr. *Varāza- “Mr. Boar”;
on Thursday 15th of July 2021 08:51:20 AM
Who said that Farhad is the Islamic or Arabic name?!
It is completely a Persian name.