Fukayhah
فكيهة
Say it fu-KAY-hah
Cheerful, light-hearted
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- f-k-h
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Fukaiha, Fukayha, Fukaihah
Meaning & source
Lisān records Fukayhah as a woman’s name and suggests it is the diminutive of fakihah, a woman of good cheer who laughs readily, or a shortened diminutive of fākihah, fruit.
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وفُكَيْهةُ: اسْمُ امرأَة
Who carried this name
- Fukayhah bint Yasār, wife of Khaṭṭāb ibn al-Ḥārith, among the early emigrant women Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11637 (vol. 8, p. 282)
- Fukayhah bint ʿUbayd, mother of Qays ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11634 (vol. 8, p. 282)