Māriyah
مارية
Say it MAA-ri-yah
Fair and gleaming
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- m-r-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Maria, Mariya, Mariyah
Meaning & source
Fair and gleaming: Lisān says “a woman māriyah is white and lustrous”.
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وامرأَة مارِيَّةٌ: بَيْضَاءُ بَرَّاقَةٌ.
Who carried this name
- Māriyah al-Qibṭiyyah, mother of the Prophet’s son Ibrāhīm Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11741 (vol. 8, p. 310)