Ḥirāʾ
حِرَاء
Say it hi-RAA
The mountain of first revelation
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-r-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Hira, Hiraa
Meaning & source
Ḥirāʾ, “a well-known mountain at Makkah”, in whose cave the revelation first came to the Prophet ﷺ (Bukhārī 3). As a name it is the mountain’s.
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وحِرَاء، بِالْكَسْرِ وَالْمَدِّ: جَبَلٌ بِمَكَّةَ مَعْرُوفٌ، يُذَكَّرُ ويؤَنث
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.