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Abd al-Rahman

Abd al-Rahman ( or occasionally ; DMG ''ʿAbd ar-Raḥman'') and variants, is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin. It is built from the Arabic words ''Abd'', ''al-'' and ''Rahman''. The name means "servant of the most gracious", ''ar-Rahman'' being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

The initial vowel of definite article ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by (hence ''ul''-). As the in ''Rahman'' represented by Arabic letter ''rā'' or Roman ''R'' is a sun consonant, the phoneme in the ''al-'' is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written in Arabic with letters corresponding to ''Abd al-Rahman'', the usual pronunciation corresponds to ''Abd ar-Rahman''. Alternative transliterations include Abdelrahman, Abd al-Rahman, Abdul Rahman, Abdur Rahman, Abdurrahman or Abdrrahman, Abd ar-Rahman, Abdulrahman, Abdur Rehman, Abdul Rehman, Abidur Rahman, Abdrrahman, and others, all subject to variant spacing and hyphenation. Certain transliterations tend to be associated with certain areas, for example, Abdirahman in Somalia, Abderrahmane in French-speaking North Africa, or Abdelrahman in Egypt. In Malay-speaking regions of South East Asia, it is often truncated as Deraman ().

Notable people with the name include:

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