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Originally Posted by Al-Zaara  Your name is beautiful! And there is a prophet Daniel in Islam too! Danyel I think it's written like. I see no reason for you to change, to be honest. |
Same here. Just tell them to pronouce it 'Daanyel' if it makes 'em feel better.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Just out of interest, is there an arabic equivalent of Andrew? |
If you take the meaning of 'Andrew' to be simply a derivation of 'man', then the Arabic names Aariz, Wasif, Akhtar and Amir have similar kinds of meanings. There's no equivalent for the apostle Andrew though. Or at least none that I'm aware of.