Thursday, December 20, 2007

My Arabic name

Jomar

JOMAR, my Maguindanaoan dormmate, lent me a few books on Islam. While I was leafing through them, I came across the 99 names of Allah.

As I was also on the hunt for a good pen name, I asked Jomar to read to me the Arabic translations. We then invented English spellings for the names that I liked.

One of these could be my nom de plume someday:
  • Raouf - "Compassionate"
  • Quddus- "Pure" (Don't react!)
  • Shakur- "Appreciative"
  • Khalil- "Majestic"

How does Raouf Ortega sound?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rudolf nalang..... sikat pa during Christmas

Rolly said...

I guess nothing still beats "The Rolly" hehe.