Nuhā
نُهَى
Say it nu-HAA
Intellect, good sense
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- n-h-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Nuha, Nouha, Nuhaa
Meaning & source
Intellect, good sense: “al-nuhā is the intellect, singular and plural”. Lisān cites the Qurʾān, “signs for people of nuhā” (20:54); the nuhyah is so called because it holds a person back from what is ugly.
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والنُّهَى: العَقْل، يَكُونُ وَاحِدًا وَجَمْعًا
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.