Sources
Every meaning on Naam rests on these three public-domain dictionaries. The wording of each meaning is our own.
Edward William Lane, An Arabic–English Lexicon (London, 1863–1893)
Eight volumes, compiled from the classical Arabic lexicons. Volumes VI–VIII were completed after Lane’s death by Stanley Lane-Poole. Cited on Naam by root. Public domain; scans are freely available on archive.org.
Francis Joseph Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian–English Dictionary (London, 1892)
Persian words, and Arabic and Turkish words used in Persian. Cited by headword. Public domain.
John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (London, 1884)
Urdu and Hindi-origin words. Cited by headword. Public domain.
What we don’t use
Other name websites and apps, their databases or wording, and AI-invented meanings. Modern copyrighted dictionaries are not reproduced.
Pronunciation
For now we give a simple romanised respelling. Human recordings will come later; we do not use machine voices, which get ع، ح and ق wrong.