As salamu 'alaikum,
Based on Qur'anic exegeses, works of arabic and other semitic languages' linguists, and your personal opinions / theories (backed by linguistic and historical proofs) what is the
arabic etymology and
arabic meaning of "Ibraaheem"?
Plz keep aside the majority scholarly and anti-Islamic (and quite possibly correct) opinion that it's
just a
transliteration of Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (pronunciation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:He-Avraham.ogg) or more likely aramaic (and also syriac I
think - correct me if I'm wrong) ܐܒܪܗܡ (pronunciation something like "owrraahim"* - correct me if I'm wrong).
This should refute "...Biblical names are also misunderstood in the Qur’an, and their meanings lost... Abraham ‘Father of many’ (cf Genesis 17:5) might have been better represented as something like
Aburahim ‘father of mercy’ instead of
Ibrahim, which has no meaning in Arabic at all." - Mark Durie,
'Isa, the Muslim Jesus (
http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/durie/islamic_jesus.html), AnsweringIslam.
Quite interestingly, the site StudyQuran in their Project Root List (
http://www.studyquran.co.uk/PRLonline.htm) gives
"Abraham" as one of the meanings of the root "alif-ba-ra" but also lists "a needle, a thing pointed" - can needles or pointed things possibly relate to the name "Ibraaheem" in any way?More interestingly, the Project Root List gives
"go away, depart, withdraw, to give up or leave/cease/quit, angry, annoy/distress/difficulty/adversity, hurt/fatigue" as meanings of the root "ba-ra-ha" - and immediatedly I can connect these to the Qur'anic accounts of Ibraaheem (peace be upon him) going away from his people's idol worship; was angry with this; annoyed them in their worship; faced distress for this by being threatened with stoning, killing or burning and was finally thrown into a fire; and fatigued the faulty reasoning of his people's support of their idol worship, and of the one he argued with mentioned in Qur'an 2:258.On a side note is the name "Abraha" (as in Abraha al Ashram) related to "Abraham" or "Ibraaheem"?
*This pronunciation is as given in "Jesus uses the word Muslim in Luke 6:40" on this site. Can u give a better link, preferably for an audio or video?
