Salman (name)
Salman or Salmaan (Arabic: سَلْمان salmān), also spelt Selman, is an Arabic male given name meaning "obedient, disciplined, humble, loyal, devoted, faithful, observant, sincere, truthful", "submissive, yielding, compliant", "pure, genuine, taintless, clear, exempt (free) from every imperfection, faultiness, shortcoming, defect, deficiency", "perfect, intact, complete, solid, whole" and "valid, right, safe, secure, flawless, proper, self-controlled (-restrained), unspoiled, true".
Pronunciation | Arabic: [sʌlˈmaːn] Urdu [səlˈmaaːn] |
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Gender | Male |
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Meaning | "Safe or Secure" |
Region of origin | Arabic |
The name Salman (سَلْمان salmān) has a diminutive called Sulayman, which both names stems from the male noun-name Salaam.
Given name
- Salman the Persian, one of Muhammad's companions
- Salman of Saudi Arabia, King of Saudi Arabia
- Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain
- Salman Abedi, terrorist responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017
- Salman Ahmad, Pakistani pop artist and member of the band Junoon
- Selman Akbulut, Turkish mathematician
- Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
- Salman Al-Farij, Saudi Arabian footballer
- Salman Irshad, Pakistani cricketer
- Salman Khan, Indian Politician
- Salman Khan, educator
- Salman Khan, Indian film actor
- Salman Khurshid, Indian politician
- Salmaan King, South African footballer
- Salman Mazahiri (1946–2020), Indian Muslim scholar
- Salman Raduyev, Chechen separatist warlord
- Selman Reis, Ottoman admiral
- Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist
- Salman bin Sultan Al Saud, Saudi royal and politician
- Salman Shahid, Pakistani actor
- Selman Stërmasi, Albanian footballer
- Salmaan Taseer (1944–2011), Pakistani businessman and politician
- Salman Yusuff Khan, Indian dancer and actor
Surname
- Ali Salman, Bahraini Twelver Shi'a cleric and Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq political society
- Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University
- David Salman (1936–2010), American legislator known for sponsoring the first bill for use of medical marijuana in New Mexico
- Dulquer Salmaan (born 1986), Indian Malayalam film actor and playback singer active from 2012
- Hussain Salman, Bahraini footballer
- İlyas Salman, Turkish actor, film director, author, screenwriter and musician
- John Selman (disambiguation)
- Karim Salman (1965–2020), Iraqi footballer
- Saad Salman, Iraqi-French film director
- Marcus Sahlman, Swedish footballer
- Peyman Salmani, Iranian footballer
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