Arabic

Ihram

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Meaning

It's an indirect Quranic name for boys and girls that refers to the state of purity that pilgrimage enters during the pilgrimage rites. It starts when the pilgrims put on their Ihram clothes, which are the white clothes that are seen during the Haj proceedings, and ends when they take off these clohes at the end of Haj

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Ihram is a girl name of Arabic origin. It starts with the letter I and is included in our growing baby names directory.

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