Save Gender Masculine Usage Arabic, Turkish Scripts حلمي(Arabic) Pronounced Pron. /ˈħil.miːj/(Arabic) [key·simplify] Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as HİLMİ in uppercase and hilmi in lowercase. Meaning & History Means "patient, tolerant" in Arabic, from the root حلم (ḥaluma) meaning "to be gentle". Related NamesFamily Tree·Details RootḥalumaVariantHelmi(Arabic) Other Languages & CulturesHelmi(Indonesian) Helmi(Malay) Categories gentleness, virtues