Malīḥah
مَلِيحَة
Say it ma-LEE-hah
Lovely, beautiful
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- m-l-ḥ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Maliha, Maleeha, Malihah
Meaning & source
Lovely, beautiful: malīḥah is the feminine of malīḥ, from malāḥah, which Lisān explains as beauty: “he became malīḥ, that is, beautiful”.
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وَقَدْ مَلُحَ يَمْلُحُ مُلُوحةً ومَلاحةً ومِلْحاً أَي حَسُنَ، فَهُوَ مَليح ومُلاحٌ ومُلَّاح
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.