Mubarak (name)

For the Hebrew name, see Barak.

Mubarak (Arabic: مبارك‎, Mubārak) is an Arabic given name, which has the meaning "blessed one". A variant form is Baraka or Barack (Arabic: بارك‎, Bārak), not to be confused with the unrelated Hebrew name Barak). Mubarak and Barack are thus the Arabic equivalent in meaning of the Latinate "Benedict" (from Latin Benedictus "blessed").

Etymologically, the name is from the consonantal root b-r-k, meaning "knee", and verbally "to prostrate oneself", and hence "to receive blessing". The feminine noun barakah (بركة) means "blessing". In Islam, and specifically within the Sufi tradition, it has a meaning similar to "charisma". The Hebrew cognate is berakhah.^{[citation needed]}

The Biblical name Baruch is the Hebrew cognate; see Book of Baruch for an instance of the name.

The name is sometimes written differently in different countries; for example, the last name of singer Shakira (a Lebanese-Colombian) is Mebarak.

When an Arabic name is used in other languages, the patronymic is often rendered as a last name. In other contexts, Mubarak is a proper last name (e.g. cricket player Jehan Mubarak).

Given name

• Mubarak Awad (21st century), Palestinian-American psychologist
• Mubarak Begum (21st century), Indian film singer
• Mubarak Ali Gilani (21st century), Pakistani Sufi
• Mubarak Khan (died 1321), regent of Khilji Dynasty
• Mubarak Ali Khan (died 1971), Pakistani singer
• Mubarak Al-Sabah (1837-1915), ruler of Kuwait
• Mubarak Hassan Shami (born 1980), Kenyan-born Qatari long-distance runner
• Mubarak Shah (circa 1252-1266), Chagatai khan
• Yussef Mohammed Mubarak Al Shihri (21st century), Saudi Arabian extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
• Tareq Mubarak Taher (born 1986), Bahraini athlete

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Surname

• Alaa Mubarak (21st century), Egyptian businessman
• Ali Pasha Mubarak (1823-1893), Egyptian public works and education minister
• Gamal Mubarak (born 1963), Egyptian politician
• Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt
• Jehan Mubarak (born 1981), American-born Sri Lankan cricketer
• Suzanne Mubarak (born 1941), former first lady of Egypt
• Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known as Shakira, an entertainer
• Wakaso Mubarak, Ghanaian footballer

See also

• Barak (disambiguation)
• Barakah
• Baraka

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