Khayrah
خيرة
Say it KHAY-rah
Good and excellent
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- kh-y-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Khayra, Khaira, Khairah
Meaning & source
Good and excellent; the better of two.
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وَرَجُلٌ خَيْرٌ وخَيِّرٌ، مُشَدَّدٌ وَمُخَفَّفٌ، وامرأَة خَيْرَةٌ وخَيِّرَةٌ، وَالْجَمْعُ أَخْيارٌ وخِيَارٌ.
Who carried this name
- Khayrah bint Abī Ḥadrad, Umm al-Dardāʾ the elder Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11143 (vol. 8, p. 123)
- Khayrah bint Qays, wife of Saʿīd ibn Zayd Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11144 (vol. 8, p. 124)