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Rojnûr

Sunlight

Gender: Girl
Origin: Kurdish
Pronunciation guide: rohj-NOOR

The story of the name

Compound: roj (sun) + nûr (light, Arabic).

Etymology

Root: roj + nûr · Kurmancî / Arabic

Rojnûr is roj (sun) + nûr — the latter borrowed from Arabic nūr (light). The compound is modern; nûr is one of the most freely-used loanwords across Kurdish and Persian poetry.

Name family

Roj · cognate
Ronî · cognate

Linguistic parallels

Nour Arabiska — 'Ljus'

nature
sun
modern
light

Updated: 2026-05-02