ʿUlayyah
علية
Say it ʿu-LAY-yah
Lofty, exalted
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ʿ-l-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ulayya, Ulaiya, Ulayyah
Meaning & source
From ʿuluww, height: Ibn Fāris says every word of the root means loftiness and rising.
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[علو] العين واللام والحرف المعتل ياءً كان أو واواً أو ألفاً، أصلٌ واحد يدلُّ على السموّ والارتفاع، لا يشذُّ عنه شئ.
Who carried this name
- ʿUlayyah bint Shurayḥ al-Ḥaḍramiyyah, half-sister of al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11491 (vol. 8, p. 242)