| Arabic |
| عمر |
| Transliteration |
| Umer/Omer/Omero/Omur |
| Translation |
| firstborn, disciple or famous |
Umar (Arabic: عمر) is an Arabic name, most commonly transliterated as "Omar". It is also sometimes transliterated as "Omer" , "Omero" and "Omur". The word is derived from the tri-consonant Arabic word for "life" and could possibly mean "living" or something similar and the name itself means firstborn or famous. The most prominent person in Islamic history to be named Umar was Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Caliph of Islam, one of the biggest conqueror in human histoy, whose amries defeated the superpowers of that time, Rome and Persia. His armies conquered large parts of North Africa, Middle East, Asia Minor, Caucasus and land as far as India. It is very rare to find a Shi'a Muslim named Omar (it exists among them though), though it is a common name among Sunni Muslims.
