Bahiyyah
بهية
Say it ba-HIY-yah
Radiant and beautiful
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- b-h-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Bahiya, Bahia, Bahiyyah
Meaning & source
Radiant and beautiful: bahāʾ is beauty.
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والبَهَاءُ: الحُسْن، وَقَدْ بَهِيَ الرجلُ، بِالْكَسْرِ، يَبْهَى ويَبْهُو بَهَاءً وَبَهَاءَةً فَهُوَ بَاهٍ، وبَهُوَ، بِالضَّمِّ، بَهَاءً فَهُوَ بَهِيٌّ، والأُنثى بَهِيَّة مِنْ نِسْوَةٍ بَهِيَّات وبَهَايا.
Who carried this name
- Bahiyyah bint ʿAbdillāh al-Bakriyyah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10949 (vol. 8, p. 54)