Rayyān
رَيَّان
Say it ray-YAAN
Well-watered, never thirsty
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- r-w-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Rayyan, Rayan, Raiyan, Rayaan, Reyan, Riyan
Meaning & source
Well-watered: “al-rayyān is the opposite of the thirsty”.
In Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1896 the Prophet ﷺ names al-Rayyān as the gate of Paradise through which those who fast will enter. No early bearer recorded here; the word is classical Arabic.
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والرَّيَّانُ: ضِدُّ العَطْشان، وَرَجُلٌ رَيّانُ وامرأَة رَيَّا مِن قَوْمٍ رِواءٍ