Ziyād
زياد
Say it zi-YAAD
Increase and growth
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- z-y-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ziyad, Ziad, Ziyaad
Meaning & source
Increase and growth: from a root meaning surplus.
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[زيد] الزاء والياء والدال أصلٌ يدلُّ على الفَضْل.
Who carried this name
- Ziyād ibn Labīd al-Anṣārī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2871 (vol. 2, p. 484)