"Traditional name"
The name Rumi is commonly a unisex name.
Rumi is the byname of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi (1207-1273), the Persian-language poet known in English as Rumi. The byname comes from the Arabic nisba rumi, meaning 'of Rum' or 'Roman', the term used in Arabic and Persian sources for Anatolia and the former Byzantine lands, where he lived most of his life. It is a place-derived byname rather than a word with a lexical meaning such as 'mercy' or 'light'.
The pronunciation of Rumi is ROO-mee.
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