Fāriʿah
فارعة
Say it FAA-ri-ʿah
Rising high, lofty
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- f-r-ʿ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Faria, Fariah, Fari'a
Meaning & source
Rising high: from a root that, Ibn Fāris says, denotes height, elevation and loftiness; farʿ is the top of anything.
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[فرع] الفاء والراء والعين أصلٌ صحيح يدلُّ على علوٍّ وارتفاعٍ وسموٍّ وسُبوغ.
Who carried this name
- Fāriʿah bint Thābit, sister of the poet Ḥassān ibn Thābit Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11578 (vol. 8, p. 258)
- al-Fāriʿah bint Abī al-Ṣalt, sister of the poet Umayyah, who came to the Prophet ﷺ after the conquest of al-Ṭāʾif Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11581 (vol. 8, p. 259)