Ruqayyah
رقيّة
Say it ru-QAY-yah
From climbing and rising
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- r-q-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ruqayya, Rukiye, Roqaya, Rukaya
Meaning & source
From r-q-y, to climb and rise; Lisān records Ruqayyah as a woman’s name.
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ورُقَيَّة: اسْمُ امرأَة.
Who carried this name
- Ruqayyah, daughter of the Prophet and wife of ʿUthmān Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11187 (vol. 8, p. 138)