"Variant of Abd al-Rahman"
The name Abdirahman is commonly a male name.
Abdirahman is a variant spelling of the Arabic name Abd al-Rahman, made of the element abd, meaning servant, and al-Rahman, the Merciful. The linking -i- form is the usual Somali rendering of the Arabic name, and it also appears in Somali orthography as Cabdiraxmaan. It is not a separate coinage but a transliteration of the same name used across East African and other Muslim communities.
The pronunciation of Abdirahman is ab-dih-RAH-mahn.
