Elizabeth in Arabic: إليزابيث, أليصابات, and Which One to Use

Elizabeth in Arabic is إليزابيث (Eleezabeeth) for an English speaker: our name tool spells it that way, and so does Arabic Wikipedia for every modern Elizabeth we checked. The Arabic Bible has its own form for Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist: أليصابات (Alīṣābāt).

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Elizabeth in Arabic calligraphy, in three styles

Renders of إليزابيث and أليصابات, in Amiri, Lemonada and Alkalami, drawn straight from the font files.

أليصابات or إليزابيث: which spelling should you use?

Use إليزابيث for a living Elizabeth: all five titles in the table further down have it, from Elizabeth Taylor to Elizabeth Olsen. Use أليصابات only for the New Testament Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, as Arabic Wikipedia does; Wiktionary spells the same name إليصابات, with the hamza below the alif.

How Arabic Wikipedia writes people called Elizabeth

For the mother of John the Baptist, Arabic Wikipedia uses the Arabic form. For the five modern people called Elizabeth in the table below, its titles write إليزابيث five times. Our name tool gives إليزابيث, the spelling of Elizabeth Taylor's article.

How إليزابيث is spelled, letter by letter

إليزابيث has eight letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter إ, alif with hamza below. إ alif with hamza below, ز zāy and ا alif never join the letter after them, so إليزابيث always shows three small gaps. It spells the English sound, so every vowel you hear is written as a letter.

What does Elizabeth mean?

Elizabeth means my God is an oath, according to Behind the Name. Elizabeth comes through Greek Elisabet from the Hebrew ʾElishevaʿ, my God is an oath. The two Arabic forms differ in the middle: إليزابيث writes the English z with zāy, ز, while أليصابات has ṣād, ص. Isabel, the Spanish form, gave the girls' name Isabella: see Isabella in Arabic. Elizabeth was one of the 25 most common names given to girls 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 Mary in Arabic, مريم and Isabella in Arabic, إيسابيلا. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic girl names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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