Khadījah
خديجة
Say it kha-DEE-jah
From a root of early birth
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- kh-d-j
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Khadija, Khadeeja, Hatice, Khadidja
Meaning & source
From khidāj, a camel’s giving birth before term; Lisān records Khadījah as a woman’s name in this root without a separate gloss.
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وخَديجَةُ: اسْمُ امرأَة.
Who carried this name
- Khadījah bint Khuwaylid, the Prophet’s first wife Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11092 (vol. 8, p. 99)