Midan Shady Sphere · Knock With Your Name
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Where we meet with culture, questions, and craft.
Knock with your name — from any language. Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Irish, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, and more. If we know it, you get a plain-English meaning, where it comes from, and the name in its own script when there is a real one. Tap Hear it to hear it said. We only write what is well known. If we don’t have it, we say so.
Guests can ask about the names set out front. The rest of the list is inside the club.
Arabic
Also Leila, Laila
In its own script
Arabic
ليلى
Meaning
Night.
Origin
Arabic Layla, night, especially a dark one. It is also the name in the old Layla and Majnun poems. Leila and Laila are the same name in other spellings.
Night. The poems knew it, and so does the group chat.