Mayyah
مية
Say it MAY-yah
Honoured as the name of Mayyah bint Muḥriz
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- m-y-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Maya, Mayya, Mayyah, Mai
What the word means
Lisān records Mayyah (and Mayy) as a woman’s name, and reports a view that it is a name of the female monkey, after which the woman was named.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
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ميا: مَيَّةُ: اسْمُ امرأَة، ومَيٌّ أَيضاً، وَقِيلَ: مَيَّةُ مِنْ أَسماء القِرَدةِ، وَبِهَا سُمِّيَتِ المرأَة.
Who carried this name
- Mayyah bint Muḥriz, of Balḥārith ibn Kaʿb, a woman of Basra who heard ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, no. 4645 (vol. 8, p. 344)