Umar (name)

Umar (name)

Umar (Arabic: عمر) is an Arabic name, most commonly transliterated as "Omar". It is also sometimes transliterated as "Omer", "Ömer" , "Omero" and "Omur". The word is derived from the tri-consonant Arabic word for "life" and could possibly mean "living" or something similar and the name itself means "firstborn" or "famous".

The most well-known historical figure to be named Umar was Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Caliph of Islam, whose armies conquered territories from both the Byzantine Empire and Persia. This conquest was responsible for the spread of Islam to North Africa, the greater Middle East, Asia Minor, the Caucasus region, and India.

Umar is a common Sunni Muslim name but a rare Shi'a Muslim name.

ee also

*Pact of Omar


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