Famous Arabic Tattoos

Arabic tattoos are definitively in fashion in the world of the famous. Movie stars, sportsmen, singers and celebrities – check who already have Arabic tattoo.

Arabic writing is exceptionally unique and very mysterious. Everyone will recognize those twists and turns, but just few will know what it means.

Arabic calligraphy is the art of handwriting, making tattoos looking very elegant and spacial.

Do you want to learn more about the meaning behind celebrity tattoos?

Have a look at the most famous Arabic tattoos.

 

Angelina Jolie’s Arabic Tattoo

Angelina made her Arabic tattoo in 2009. It is located on her right arm and covers up the abstract lines tattoo made while she was with Billy Bob Thornton. This Arabic inscription العزيمة (pronounced: al-‘azeema) means “Determination”.

Angelina Jolie's Arabic Tattoo
Angelina Jolie’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Rihanna’s Arabic Tattoo

Rihanna’s Arabic tattoo was inked by an unknown tattoo artist in 2008. Her Arabic tattoo is secretly located on her left rib cage area. This Arabic phrase الحرية في المسيح(pronounced: Al-Hurria fi Al-Maseeh) translates as “Freedom in God” or “Freedom in Christ”.

Rihanna Arabic Tattoo
Rihanna’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Colin Farrell’s Arabic Tattoo

Colin Farrell has 2 Arabic tattoos. One is on the wrist and says الحرية (pronounced: al-hurriya), which means “freedom”. The other one is on his back.

Colin Farrell Arabic Tattoo
Colin Farrell’s wrist Arabic Tattoo

Colin Farrell Arabic Tattoo
Colin Farrell’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Zoe Kravitz’s Arabic Tattoo

The Arabic tattoo meaning is “Let Love Rule” and is the title of one of her dad’s songs. Insription is pronounced as ‘da’a al-Hubb al-qa’ada’. Unfortunatelly for Zoe this Arabic tattoo is not quite grammatically correct and was probably translated in google. The word ‘rule’ is a noun here, intead of a verb, and means rather ‘the base’.

Zoe Kravitz Arabic Tattoo
Zoe Kravitz’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Zlatan Ibrahimović’s Arabic Tattoo

Former FC Barcelona player Zlatan Ibrahimović is a huge fan of tattoos. He has an Arabic tattoo located on the back of his right arm. Is the family name Ibrahimović written in Arabic script.

Zlatan Ibrahimović Arabic Tattoo
Zlatan Ibrahimović’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Zayn Malik’s Arabic Tattoo

Zayn Malik is a star of popular band One Direction. He is a huge fun of inking. Have 29 tattooes alltogether and two of them are written in Arabic script.
First of them is located on the right side of his chest and is his grandfather name “Walter” in Arabic. He made it in December 2010 and it was the very first of Zayn Malik’s tattoos.
Other one, added in April 2012, is inked across his left collarbone. It is a quotation in Arabic “Be True to Who You Are”.
Arabic language has a special meaning to Zayn Malik as his father is a Pakistani immigrant and Zayn himself was raised as a Muslim.

Zayn Malik Arabic Tattoo
Zayn Malik’s Arabic Tattoo
Zayn Malik Arabic Tattoo
Zayn Malik’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Kym Marsh’s’ Arabic Tattoo

Another fan of Arabic tattoos is Kym Marsh, British actress known from UK soap opera Coronation Street. Recently she got tattoo on her left arm – her two children names in Arabic calligraphy, David and Emily.

Kym Marsh Arabic Tattoo
Kym Marsh’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Christina Perri’s Arabic Tattoo

Christina Perri is one of the most tattooed female singer, having around 50 tattoos. And all of that being only 25 years old.
She has an Arabic tattoo on her left forearm. It says “maktub” which is an arabic word meaning “it is written” or “destiny”, after reading the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. She explained: “Because everything is pre-ordained by God“.

Christina Perri Arabic Tattoo
Christina Perri’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Zoe Saldana’s Arabic Tattoo

Zoe saldana is known from movies like Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean and Avatar. She has 2 Arabic tattoos, but apparently of poor translate as they don’t make sense.
Tattoo on her left rib cage is in Arabic, and tattoo on her right foot is in Farsi language, which also use Arabic script.

Zoe Saldana Arabic Tattoo
Zoe Saldana’s Arabic Tattoo

Zoe Saldana Arabic Tattoo
Zoe Saldana’s foot Arabic Tattoo

 

Michael Clarke’s Arabic Tattoo

Australian cricketer Michael Clarke has an Arabic tattoo on his left arm. There was a lot of discussion about his exotic writing tattoo due to its poor translation. Arabic phrase ألم الإنضباط هو شيء مثل الألم من خيبة الأمل is translated as “The pain of discipline is something similar to the pain of disappointment”, while it supposed to be “The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment.”

Michael Clarke Arabic Tattoo
Michael Clarke’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Eva Gonzalez’s Arabic Tattoo

Eva Gonzalez is a Spanish born model. She got an Arabic tattoo on her left foot, it sazs her name in Arabic script.

Eva Gonzalez Arabic Tattoo
Eva Gonzalez’s Arabic Tattoo

 

Marjorie Estiano’s Arabic Tattoo

Marjorie Estiano is a Brazilian actress and singer.

Marjorie Estiano Arabic Tattoo
Marjorie Estiano’s Arabic Tattoo

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