Isaac in Arabic: How to Write إسحاق, and What It Means

Isaac in Arabic is إسحاق (Isḥāq), the son of Abraham and Sarah in the Quran and the Arabic Bible alike. Arabic also writes most English speakers named Isaac this way: Arabic Wikipedia has إسحاق نيوتن for Isaac Newton, and our name tool gives إسحاق too.

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

Isaac in Arabic calligraphy: إسحاق in three styles

Three renders of إسحاق, in Amiri, Lemonada and Rakkas, drawn straight from the font files.

One spelling for every Isaac: إسحاق

إسحاق serves for the prophet, for an Arabic speaker named Isḥāq and for Isaac Newton. One variant drops the long ā: Arabic Wikipedia writes Isaac Asimov as إسحق عظيموف. إسحاق, with the alif, is the spelling in our name data.

How Arabic Wikipedia writes people called Isaac

For the patriarch Isaac, Arabic Wikipedia uses the Arabic form. For the three modern people called Isaac in the table below, its titles write إسحاق twice and إسحق once. Our name tool gives إسحاق, the spelling of Isaac Newton's article.

How إسحاق is spelled, letter by letter

إسحاق has five letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter إ, alif with hamza below. إ alif with hamza below and ا alif never join the letter after them, so إسحاق always shows two small gaps. Arabic writes only long vowels as letters. The two short vowels are marks that everyday spelling leaves out; إِسْحَاق shows them.

What does Isaac mean?

Isaac means he will laugh, he will rejoice, according to Behind the Name. The Hebrew Yitsḥaq means he will laugh, from tsaḥaq, to laugh; Genesis tells that Abraham, and later Sarah, laughed at the news of his birth. The Quran tells the same moment in 11:71, where Sarah laughs; our page on Sarah in Arabic, سارة follows it. Isaac was one of the 50 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 Abraham in Arabic, إبراهيم and Jacob in Arabic, يعقوب. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic boy names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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