{"id":2317,"date":"2010-07-17T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T01:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2010-07-17T23:26:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T03:26:40","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ab%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ab%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0627\u0644\u062b\u0631\u064a\u0627 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pleiades_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2318\" title=\"Pleiades_large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pleiades_large-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pleiades_large-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pleiades_large-1024x738.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So today I was working on my novel, <em>Worlds Away from Home,<\/em> and I decided to change the name of a minor character from &#8220;Soroya&#8221; to something that sounds cooler.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d given the rest of her family Arabic-sounding names, because they&#8217;re basically far-future Arabs living on another planet (their tribal name is Najmi (\u0646\u062c\u0645\u064a), which means &#8220;of the stars&#8221;), so I wanted to give her an Arabic-sounding name.<\/p>\n<p>Well, when I looked up female Arabic names at <a href=\"http:\/\/behindthename.com\">Behind The Name<\/a>, guess what I found?\u00a0 &#8220;Soraya&#8221; is an actual Arab name&#8211;in fact, it&#8217;s a variant of &#8220;Thurayya&#8221; (\u062b\u0631\u064a\u0627), which means &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ar.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%28%D8%B9%D9%86%D9%82%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%8A%29\">the Pleiades<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ha! Isn&#8217;t that perfect?\u00a0 &#8220;Pleiades of the stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To make her name cool, though, I changed the spelling to &#8220;Surayya.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I was working on my novel, Worlds Away from Home, and I decided to change the name of a minor character from &#8220;Soroya&#8221; to something that sounds cooler. I&#8217;d given the rest of her family Arabic-sounding names, because they&#8217;re basically far-future Arabs living on another planet (their tribal name is Najmi (\u0646\u062c\u0645\u064a), which&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ab%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%a9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u0627\u0644\u062b\u0631\u064a\u0627 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0648\u0627\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[391,179],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","tag-arabs","tag-character-names","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-Bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}