Āsiyah
آسية
Say it AA-si-yah
One who tends and heals
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ʾ-s-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Asiya, Aasiya, Asiyah, Asiye
Meaning & source
From asā, to tend and heal a wound; the āsī is the one who treats it.
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وأَسا الجُرْحَ أَسْواً وأَساً: دَاوَاهُ.
Who carried this name
- Āsiyah bint al-Ḥārith al-Saʿdiyyah, named as a foster-sister of the Prophet ﷺ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10759 (vol. 8, p. 3)
- Āsiyah bint al-Faraj al-Jurhumiyyah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10760 (vol. 8, p. 3)