Faryal

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Faryal (Persian: فریال Faryâl; Arabic: فَرْيَال Faryāl; Azerbaijani: Fəryal; Tajik: Фарёл, romanized: Faryol; Ottoman Turkish: فَرْیال; Turkish: Feryal; Urdu: فریال Faryāl; Uzbek: Faryol; also anglicized as Farial or Ferial) is a feminine given name of Persian origin used throughout the Muslim world.

It is a compound of the Persian words فر (far) meaning 'splendour' and یال (yâl) meaning 'neck'. The overall meaning of this name is thus 'the one with a beautiful neck, good neck'.

Women with this given name include:

• Ferial Qadin (died 1902), consort to Ismail Pasha
• Farial of Egypt (1938–2009), princess
• Faryal (actress) (born 1945), actress of Indian and Syrian descent
• Faryal Gohar (born 1959), Pakistani actress
• Faryal Talpur (born 1958), Pakistani politician
• Faryal Mehmood, Pakistani-American actress
• Faryal Makhdoom, wife of Amir Khan
• Ferial Govashiri, Iranian-American political aide
• Ferial Karim (1938–1988), Lebanese actress
• Ferial Ashraff (born 1953), Sri Lankan politician
• Ferial Haffajee (born 1967), South African journalist
• Ferial Salhi (born 1967), Algerian fencer
• Ferial Alibali (1933–2011), Albanian stage actress
• Ferial Ghazoul, Iraqi scholar
• Feryal Abdelaziz (born 1999), Egyptian karateka
• Feryal Clark (born 1979), British politician
• Feryal Özel (born 1975), Turkish-American astrophysicist

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