Muʿallā
معلى
Say it mu-AL-laa
Raised high
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-l-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Mualla, Mu’alla, Moalla
Meaning & source
Raised high: from ʿ-l-w, which Ibn Fāris gives as height and rising.
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[علو] العين واللام والحرف المعتل ياءً كان أو واواً أو ألفاً، أصلٌ واحد يدلُّ على السموّ والارتفاع، لا يشذُّ عنه شئ.
Who carried this name
- Muʿallā ibn Manṣūr of Rayy al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 95 (vol. 10, p. 365)