Arabic Vocabulary Lists > Sarah in Arabic
Sarah in Arabic is سارة, pronounced Sāra, with a long first a. It is four letters: sīn, alif, rāʾ and tāʾ marbūṭa. With its vowel marks it is سَارَة. Sarah and Sara are one name in Arabic, so both are written سارة. The name comes from Hebrew and means princess or noblewoman.
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| Use it for | Copy this | Transliteration |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday Arabic: messages, names on cards, a tattoo | سارة | Sāra |
| With vowel marks, so a learner reads it right | سَارَة | Sāra |
| Persian only, not Arabic | ساره | Sâre |
Sarah in Arabic calligraphy: سارة in eight fonts
These eight images show سارة in eight free fonts, from the plain Naskh of printed books to the Kano style of northern Nigeria. We drew each one straight from the font file, and every font is under the SIL Open Font License. Save any of them for a card or a post.
Diwani, the Ottoman court hand, and Maghribi, the North African hand, have no font of their own among the 57 families with Arabic letters on Google Fonts (we checked every family's description on 14 October 2026). For Diwani, Lemonada above is the nearest. A font is typeset lettering: it draws each letter the same way every time, while a calligrapher shapes the whole name. For a framed gift, ask a calligrapher to write it by hand.
Write سارة in more fonts and download it
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Naskh the print style
Thuluth-style Naskh with Thuluth touches
Kufi angular, for logos and titles
Ruqah everyday handwriting
Nastaliq the hanging Persian and Urdu style
Kano West African reed-pen style
Poster bold display lettering
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How سارة is spelled, letter by letter
سارة has four letters, read from right to left, and only the first two join. Alif and rāʾ never join the letter after them, so the name always shows two small gaps: one after ا and one after ر. In every image above, س runs into ا, and ر and ة stand on their own.
| Letter | Name | Sound in Sāra | Joins the next letter? |
|---|---|---|---|
| س | sīn | s | Yes, it joins the alif |
| ا | alif | long ā | No, never |
| ر | rāʾ | r, a short tap of the tongue | No, never |
| ة | tāʾ marbūṭa | a, the feminine ending | Last letter |
Arabic writes only long vowels as letters, so the short a after ر is a mark, the fatḥa, which everyday spelling leaves out. Wiktionary gives the Arabic pronunciation as /saː.ra/. If the gaps look odd to you, our guide to how Arabic letters join, and the six that never join forward explains the rule.
سارة, ساره, سارا: which spelling is right?
سارة, ending in tāʾ marbūṭa, is the Arabic spelling. The other forms you meet online belong to other languages written in Arabic letters, or are mistakes. The language column follows the descendants that Wiktionary's entry for سارة lists.
| Spelling | Language | Last letter | Use it in Arabic? |
|---|---|---|---|
| سارة | Arabic | ة tāʾ marbūṭa, U+0629 | Yes |
| ساره | Persian (sâre), Ottoman Turkish | ه hāʾ, U+0647 | No: the Persian spelling |
| سارا | Persian (sârâ), Uyghur | ا alif, U+0627 | No |
| سارہ | Urdu | ہ Urdu hāʾ, U+06C1 | No: a letter Arabic does not use |
| صارة | none | ة, but the first letter is ص (ṣād) | No: a misspelling |
ة and ه differ by two dots, and they are separate letters. ة is the usual feminine ending of Arabic nouns and names, said as a short a at the end of a word. ه is the letter h. Persian spells the name with hāʾ, ساره. صارة uses ṣād, the heavy s, where the name has the plain sīn. Our page on the Perso-Arabic alphabet, and how Persian and Urdu spell names such as سارا covers the letters those languages add.
What does Sarah mean?
Sarah means princess or noblewoman. The name is Hebrew, and both Behind the Name and Wiktionary's Arabic entry give that meaning: Behind the Name has "lady, princess, noblewoman", and Wiktionary calls سارة "a female given name from Hebrew". Behind the Name adds that her first name was Sarai, changed to Sarah in Genesis 17:15. Our Arabic name generator, with a meaning for every name lists Sara with the same meaning.
Sarah is sometimes glossed as "joyful" in Arabic. That meaning belongs to a different word, سَارَّة (sārra), with a doubled r marked by a shadda. Wiktionary gives it as the feminine of سَارّ (sārr), pleasant or delightful, from the verb سَرَّ (sarra), to gladden, root s-r-r.
What is Sarah's name in Islam?
In Islam her name is سارة (Sāra), the same as everywhere else in Arabic. She is the wife of the prophet Ibrāhīm (Abraham) and the mother of Isḥāq (Isaac). The Quran tells her story without using her name, as Wikipedia's article on Sarah also notes. It calls her ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ (imraʾatuhu), his wife.
- Quran 11:71-72 (Surah Hūd): Ibrāhīm's wife is standing by, she laughs, and she is given the news of Isḥāq and, after him, Yaʿqūb (Jacob). In verse 72 she asks how she can have a child when she and her husband are old.
- Quran 51:29 (Surah al-Dhāriyāt): she comes forward with a cry, clasping her face in astonishment, and asks how a barren old woman could have a child.
The hadith name her. Sahih al-Bukhari 3358, narrated by Abu Hurayra, tells of Ibrāhīm and Sarah passing through the land of a tyrant, and its Arabic text spells her name سَارَة, the same spelling as in the table above.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the Arabic version of Sarah?
Sarah in Arabic is سارة, pronounced Sāra, with a long first a. It has four letters: sīn, alif, rāʾ and tāʾ marbūṭa. With its vowel marks it is سَارَة. Sarah and Sara are one name in Arabic, so both are written سارة.
What does Sarah mean in Arabic?
The name comes from Hebrew and means princess or noblewoman, which is the meaning Wiktionary gives for the Arabic name سارة. A different Arabic word, سَارَّة (sārra), with a doubled r, means pleasant or delightful. The gloss joyful, sometimes given for Sarah, belongs to that word, not to the Hebrew name.
What is Sarah's name in Islam?
It is the same name, سارة (Sāra). Sarah is the wife of the prophet Ibrāhīm (Abraham) and the mother of Isḥāq (Isaac). The Quran tells her story without naming her: in 11:71-72 and 51:29 she is his wife, who laughs and then wonders at the news of a son. The hadith name her, for example Sahih al-Bukhari 3358.
Is it Sara or Sarah in Arabic?
In Arabic there is no difference. The h at the end of the English Sarah is silent, so Sara and Sarah are both written سارة. The variation you see online is between scripts: ساره is the Persian spelling, سارا is used in Persian and Uyghur, and Urdu writes سارہ with its own letter h.
Is سارة correct for a tattoo?
Yes, سارة is the standard Arabic spelling. Check that the first two letters, س and ا, are joined, and that ر and ة stand apart: the alif and the rāʾ never join the next letter, so those two gaps are correct. Paste the text into our Arabic tattoo checker before you send it to the artist, and keep the two dots on the final ة.