Lily in Arabic: How to Write ليلي, Letter by Letter

Lily in Arabic is ليلي, which reads back as Leeli. Lily has no Arabic form of its own, so Arabic spells its sound, here with four letters: lām, yāʾ, lām and yāʾ. ليلي is how Arabic Wikipedia writes all four people called Lily that we checked.

Copy ليلي from the first row of the table. Any other rows hold the other spellings Arabic Wikipedia uses for Lily, or a related Arabic name. The Listen button reads each one in your device's Arabic voice, if it has one.

Lily in Arabic calligraphy, in three styles

Renders of ليلي and سوسن, in Amiri, Katibeh and Alkalami, drawn straight from the font files.

How Arabic Wikipedia spells Lily

We looked up the Arabic Wikipedia articles of four well-known people called Lily. Their titles write the name as ليلي four times. Our name tool gives ليلي, the spelling of Lily Allen's article.

Why ليلي is spelled this way

Lily is spelled by its sound, and Arabic has no letter for some English sounds, so each choice below follows a rule. ليلي starts with the letter ل, lām. Every letter of ليلي joins the one after it, so the name is one unbroken shape.

• Lily is four letters: lām, ل, yāʾ, ي, lām again, and yāʾ again. The first yāʾ stands for the ee in the middle, the second for the y at the end.
• Do not mix it up with ليلى, Laylā, the Arabic name meaning night: it ends in alif maqṣūra, ى, and is said Lay-la. See Layla in Arabic.
• All four Lilys in the table above are ليلي on Arabic Wikipedia.

What does Lily mean?

Lily means lily, the flower, according to Behind the Name. It is the name of the flower, a symbol of purity, from Latin lilium. Edith Wharton gave it to Lily Bart in her novel The House of Mirth (1905). Lily 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.

If you want an Arabic name with the same meaning, سوسن (Sawsan) means lily. It is on our list of Arabic girl names with their meanings.

Two related names on this site are Jasmine in Arabic, ياسمين and Luna in Arabic, لونا. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic girl names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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