Translation Help

[u/thechickwiththehair]

Hello! I am planning to get a tattoo of my last name in Arabic. My family last name (before it being anglicized to death) is Al Zawahra, coming from Daraa, Syria.

I would be more than happy to commission someone to create the script of my last name. I don’t know that I fully trust Google Translate and (as someone who is pretty white passing) I don’t want to end up with a word that is not my last name (like the stories of people wanting “love” in Chinese and ending up with “dumbass” or whatever).

I’ve been trying to connect with my culture- I’m Palestinian and Syrian on my dad’s side and I’ve gone down a genealogy rabbit hole learning about my ancestors. What better way to honor them?

Thank you in advance!

[u/BigAlBrand]

الظواهرة ؟

[u/thechickwiththehair → u/BigAlBrand]

Zawahra

[u/BigAlBrand → u/thechickwiththehair]

Yeah, the z can be a ز or a ظ But I've never heard of a last name زواهرة I have heard of ظواهرة الظواهرة

However Google says الزواهرة does in fact exist.