Farah — Name Meaning in Islam

Root: ف-ر-ح (f-r-ḥ), "to rejoice". Faraḥ is the verbal noun itself: joy, gladness, delight — the state, not a person described by it, which is why the name is used unchanged for the feeling.

From the same root: fariḥa (he rejoiced), farḥān / farḥāna (joyful), Farḥat, mafraḥ, tafrīḥ (to gladden someone).

In the Qur'an: the root appears on both sides of a line. It is used approvingly of the believers who will rejoice at a promised outcome (ar-Rum 30:4), and as a warning against exulting in wealth — the word said to Qarun, lā tafraḥ, "do not exult", with the comment that Allah does not love those who exult in that way (al-Qasas 28:76). Classical commentators read the difference as joy at what is from Allah against joy in one's own possessions.

Spellings: Farah, Farrah, Ferah (Turkish), Farah (Indonesian), Farah (Urdu), Farah (Maghrebi), فرح.

Pronunciation: FA-raḥ, two short syllables, closing on the deep ḥāʾ made in the throat — not the light English h.

Note: Turkish ferah has drifted towards "relief, spaciousness, ease of heart"; it is the same word taken in a slightly different direction.

Masculine counterpart: Farhan (فرحان), widely used; Farah itself is given to both in some regions.