Rajāʾ
رجاء
Say it ra-JAA
Hope, not despair
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- r-j-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Raja, Rajaa, Raja’
Meaning & source
Hope, the opposite of despair (Lisān).
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رجا: الرَّجَاءُ مِنَ الأَمَلِ: نَقِيضُ اليَأْسِ، مَمْدودٌ.
Who carried this name
- Rajāʾ al-Ghanawī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2647 (vol. 2, p. 399)
- Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah of Syria al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 220 (vol. 4, p. 557)