Ala-ud-din as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Ala-ud-din

What is the meaning of the name Ala-ud-din ?

The baby name Ala-ud-din is a Male name and is pronounced ah-LAH-ud-DEEN (Arabic: ʿAlā ad-Dīn, [ʕaˈlaː adˈdiːn]).

Ala-ud-din is Arabic in Origin.

Ala-ud-din is an Arabic honorific compound from ʿAlāʾ (“exaltation, nobility, loftiness”) and al-Dīn (“the faith, religion”), yielding the sense “exaltation of the faith” or “nobility of religion.” In Arabic pronunciation the article assimilates before the sun-letter dāl, so al-Dīn is said ad-Dīn; in Persianate and South Asian transliteration this often surfaces as ud-Dīn, producing the widely used form Ala-ud-din.

Carried across the Islamic world through Arabic, Persian, and Turkic prestige cultures, the name appears in medieval courts and scholarship - most famously with Sultan Alauddin Khalji of Delhi (r. 1296–1316) - and remains popular in Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Turkish, and Malay contexts. Common variants include Alāʾ al-Dīn, Ala ad-Din, Ala-ud-din, Alauddin, Alaeddin (Turkish), and the anglicized Aladdin, familiar from the 1001 Nights tale. It belongs to a larger -ud-Din naming tradition (e.g., Shams-ud-din, Nur-ud-din). Short forms such as Alaa/Ala or Din sometimes occur in everyday use.