Noor
[nʊər]Meaning
alternate transcription of Arabic نور (nūr), "light"; also a Dutch short form of Eleonora
Background Story
Noor is an alternate transcription of the Arabic and Urdu نور or Bengali নূর, meaning "light", and is also a Malay and Indonesian variant of that name. Behind the Name records it in use in Azerbaijani, Somali, Swahili, Turkish and Uyghur. A separate Dutch name Noor is a short form of Eleonora, and Behind the Name lists it for Bulgarian, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Norwegian.
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