Luay, Luayy or Louay (
Arabic
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لُؤَيّ ''lū’ayy'', ), also spelled Loai, Loay or Luai, is an Arabic male given name from the noun ''la’y'' (
لَأْي), meaning "Strong, Patient, a Sheild and/or Protector".
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
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Luay Hamza Abbas, Iraqi writer
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Louay Almokdad
Louay Almokdad ( ar, لؤي المقداد; born 20 December 1982) is a Syrian-British politician and businessman. He was born in 1982 in Damascus, Syria.
Education
He studied in Damascus until high school, and graduated from the American Un ...
, Syrian-British businessman and politician
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Luai al-Atassi, Syrian military leader
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Louay Chanko, Syrian footballer
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Louay Kayyali, Syrian modern artist
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Luay Nakhleh, Palestinian-Israeli-American professor of computer science
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Louay M. Safi, Syrian-American scholar of Islam
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Luay Salah, Iraqi footballer
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Loai al-Saqa, Syrian al-Qaeda member
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Loay Taleb, Syrian footballer
Family name
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Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy, ancestor of the
Islamic prophet
Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God in Islam, God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. So ...
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...
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Arabic masculine given names