Rajāʾ
رجاء
Say it ra-JAA
Hope, not despair
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- r-j-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Raja, Rajaa, Rajā
Meaning & source
Hope: rajāʾ is hope, the opposite of despair.
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رجا: الرَّجَاءُ مِنَ الأَمَلِ: نَقِيضُ اليَأْسِ، مَمْدودٌ.
Who carried this name
- Rajāʾ al-Ghanawiyyah, who was with the Prophet ﷺ when a mother brought her child for his prayer Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11174 (vol. 8, p. 134)