Adam in Arabic: How to Write آدم, and What It Means

Adam in Arabic is آدم (Ādam), the same in the Quran, in the Arabic Bible and for an English speaker named Adam. It is one of the few names where the Arabic form and the English sound agree, so our name tool, Arabic Wikipedia and the Quran all write آدم.

Copy آدم from the table. It serves for the biblical name and for an English speaker named Adam alike, and the Listen button reads it in your device's Arabic voice, if it has one.

Adam in Arabic calligraphy: آدم in three styles

Three renders of آدم, in Amiri, Katibeh and Noto Nastaliq Urdu, drawn straight from the font files.

One spelling for every Adam: آدم

آدم is right for the first man of the Quran, named in Quran 2:31, and of Genesis, for an Arabic speaker named Ādam and for Adam Sandler alike. Its first letter, alif madda, آ, is an alif with a wavy line that stands for a hamza followed by a long ā.

How Arabic Wikipedia writes people called Adam

For the first man, Arabic Wikipedia uses the Arabic form. For the three modern people called Adam in the table below, its titles write آدم three times. Our name tool gives آدم, the spelling of Adam Sandler's article.

How آدم is spelled, letter by letter

آدم has three letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter آ, alif madda. آ alif madda and د dāl never join the letter after them, so آدم always shows two small gaps. Arabic writes only long vowels as letters. The one short vowel is a mark that everyday spelling leaves out; آدَم shows it.

What does Adam mean?

Adam means man, according to Behind the Name. In Hebrew adam is the word for man, possibly from a root meaning red. آدم is an ordinary Arabic noun too: Wiktionary gives human, person and man for it, and our list of Arabic boy names glosses the name as Adam and, as a noun, a human being. Eve, his wife, is Eve in Arabic, حواء. Adam was one of the 100 most common names given to boys born in the US in 2024, in the Social Security Administration's 2024 national file, as copied in the usbabynames data package.

Two related names on this site are Eve in Arabic, حواء and Noah in Arabic, نوح. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic boy names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

Write آدم in more fonts and download it

Paste آدم into the box below, or into our Arabic calligraphy generator, to draw it in 12 more fonts and save it as a PNG.

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