Umayyah
أميّة
Say it u-MAY-yah
Honoured as the name of Umayyah ibn Makhshī
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʾ-m-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Umayya, Umaya, Omayya
What the word means
The diminutive of amah, a young female servant.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
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وأَمّا بفِعْل الصَّالحِينَ فَيَأْتَمِي وَالنِّسْبَةُ إِليها أَمَوِيٌّ، بِالْفَتْحِ، وَتَصْغِيرُهَا أُمَيَّة.
Who carried this name
- Umayyah ibn Makhshī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 260 (vol. 1, p. 269)