Sarah written in the Arabic script, with pronunciation, a letter-by-letter breakdown, and the story behind the name.
Each Arabic letter below maps to part of the name — remember that Arabic reads right to left.
Sarah is a Hebrew name meaning "princess" or "noblewoman" — and it is also a native Arabic name. سارة (Sārah) is the wife of the prophet Ibrāhīm (Abraham) in Islamic tradition, so the name has existed in Arabic for as long as it has in European languages.
Because سارة is a genuinely Arabic name, it needs no adaptation — Arabic speakers recognize it instantly. The tā marbūṭah (ة) ending marks it as feminine, the same ending you see in names like Fatimah (فاطمة) and Aisha (عائشة). Spellings with a final ا or ه exist but سارة is the standard.
Sarah is written سارة, reading right to left: sīn (س), alif (ا), rā (ر), and tā marbūṭah (ة). The tā marbūṭah is the standard feminine name ending in Arabic. You can copy سارة with the button at the top of this page.
Both, in a sense — it is a native name in Arabic. سارة appears in Islamic tradition as the wife of the prophet Ibrāhīm, so Arabic speakers treat it as their own name, not a foreign import. That makes Sarah one of the few names spelled essentially the same way across Arabic, Hebrew, and European cultures.
سارا ends with a plain alif and is often used for the spelling Sara; ساره with a final hā is a common informal variant, especially in text messages. The dictionary-standard feminine spelling is سارة with tā marbūṭah — that is what appears on official documents.