Persian · Girl name
Jihan
“world, universe”
About the name Jihan
Jihan is a Persian girls’ name. It is derived from Persian ‘jahan’, meaning ‘world’, and it can also be translated as ‘universe’. The same word appears in the title of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, ‘king of the world’, and in Nur Jahan, ‘light of the world’, the title of the empress consort of Jahangir. Jihan is commonly used in Persian-speaking cultures and in Arabic-speaking countries; Jehan Sadat, wife of the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, bore a variant of the name.
- Meaning
- world, universe
- Origin
- Persian
- Gender
- Girl
- Pronunciation
- jee-HAHN(2 syl.)
Variants and spellings
No common variant spellings are widely recorded.
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Middle names for Jihan
- Jihan Amina
- Jihan Zahra
- Jihan Yasmin
- Jihan Niloofar
- Jihan Laleh
Questions about Jihan
- What does Jihan mean?
- Jihan is a Persian name meaning "world, universe".
- How do you pronounce Jihan?
- Jihan is pronounced jee-HAHN, with emphasis on the second syllable.
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