Zāʾidah
زائدة
Say it ZAA-i-dah
Growing, increasing
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- z-y-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Zaida, Zaidah, Zayda
Meaning & source
Growing, increasing: from ziyādah, increase (“God increased him in good”).
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وَتَزَايَدَ أَهل السُّوقِ عَلَى السِّلْعَةِ إِذا بِيعَتْ فِيمَنْ يَزِيدُ، وَزَادَهُ اللَّه خيراً وزاد فِيمَا عِنْدَهُ.
Who carried this name
- Zāʾidah, freedwoman of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11217 (vol. 8, p. 149)