Jamal
Jamal | |
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Pronunciation | Hejaz and Najd: [dʒaˈmaːl] Levant: [ʒaˈmaːl] Tunisia: [ʒæˈmɛːl] Egypt: [ɡæˈmæːl] English: /dʒəˈmɑːl/[1] |
Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Arabic |
Meaning | Beauty |
Region of origin | Arab world |
Other names | |
Related names | Cemal, Cemil, Jamil; Jamila (feminine) |
Jamal (Arabic: جمال Jamāl/Ǧamāl ) is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "beauty".[2] The use of this name is widespread across the Muslim world.
In Egypt the name is pronounced [ɡæˈmæːl] and so is normally spelled Gamal . Tunisians may spell it Jamel. In Turkish, the name is transliterated as Cemal, Albanian as Xhemal (not to be confused with Shamil) and in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian as Džemal or Ćemo.
Contents
1 Notable people with the given name
2 Notable people with this surname
3 Fictional characters
4 Music
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Notable people with the given name
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), Egyptian president
Djamel Abdoun, Algerian professional footballer
Jamal Abro (1924–2004) Pakistani Sindhi Writer
Jamal Adams (born 1995), American football player
Jamal Agnew (born 1995), American football player
Djamal Amrani, Algerian poet
Jamal Anderson (born 1972), American football player
Džemal Bijedić (1917–1977), Yugoslav Communist politician
Kemal Monteno (1948–2015), Yugoslav and Bosnian singer and songwriter
Jamal Dajani (born 1957), Palestinian-American journalist, producer, and writer
Jamal Carter (born 1994), American football player
Jamal Crawford (born 1980), American basketball player
Jamal Fyfield (born 1989), English footballer
Jamal Hamdan (born 1958), Lebanese actor and voice actor
Jamal Idris (born 1990), Australian rugby player
Jamal Khwaja (born 1926), Indian philosopher
Jamal Lewis (born 1979), American football player
Djamal Mahamat, Libyan footballer
Jamal Mashburn (born 1972), American basketball player
Jamal Mayers (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player
Djamal Mohamed, French-born Comorian footballer
Jamal Mohamed (born 1984), Kenyan footballer
Gamal Mubarak (born 1963), son of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
Jamal Mustafa, American wrestler (better known by the ring name Mustafa Saed)
Jamal Nebez (born 1933), Kurdish linguist and mathematician.
Jamal Phillips (born 1979), American rapper and member of Illegal and Def Squad
Jamal Woolard (born 1975), American entertainer
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (born 1970), American television actor, film director, and musician- Jamal, stage name of Eddie Fatu or Umaga (wrestler) (1973–2009), Samoan wrestler
Mahbub Jamal Zahedi (1929–2008), Pakistani journalist
Courtney Jamal Dewar Jr. (1993-2012), American hip-hop artist
Andre Jamal Drummond (born 1993), American basketball player
Jamal Khashoggi, a US-Saudi man and relative of Adnan Khashoggi; he was murdered in the Saudi Embassy in Turkey
Notable people with this surname
Ahmad Jamal (born 1930), American jazz pianist and composer
Amir H. Jamal (1922–1995), former Tanzanian Minister of Finance
Ammar Jemal (born 1987), Tunisian footballer
Maher Jamal, Syrian politician
Mazen Gamal (born 1986), Egyptian squash player
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook, 1954), American convict
Sharif El-Gamal (born 1973), New York City real estate developer
Taher Elgamal (born 1955), Egyptian cryptographer
Fictional characters
Jamal Lyon, one of the main protagonists of the Fox show Empire
Jamal Malik, protagonist in the film Slumdog Millionaire
- Jamal Grant, main character in the NBC show City Guys
- Jamal Al-Fayeed, main antagonist of the FX show Tyrant
- Jamal Wallace, main character for the film Finding Forrester
- Jamal, a supporting character in the video game Sonic Unleashed
Music
Jamal (band), Polish hip-hop, ragauaffin, reggae and dancehall band
See also
- Jamaal
- Jamal ad-Din (disambiguation)
- Gamal (disambiguation)
- Kamal
References
^ Jamal at Dictionary.com
^ Jamal at BehindTheName.com
External links
The dictionary definition of جمال at Wiktionary
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