Ḥayāʾ
حَيَاء
Say it ha-YAA
Modesty, a sense of shame
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-y-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Haya, Hayaa, Hayah
Meaning & source
Modesty, a sense of shame: al-Rāghib, quoted in Tāj al-ʿArūs, “it is the soul’s shrinking back from what is ugly”. Tāj cites the ḥadīth “ḥayāʾ is a branch of faith” (Bukhārī 9).
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هُوَ انْقِباضُ النَّفْسِ عَن القَبائِحِ
al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs, root ḥ-y-y (vol. 37, p. 512)
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.