Ruqayya
Ruqayya (Arabic: رقيّة) is an Arabic female given name meaning "spell, enchantment, or incantation".[1]
Disambiguation
It is not to be confused with a separate Arabic term "Ruqia" from Arabic رقى (ruqia) which means to "rise or ascend".
Famous people named Ruqayya
Ruqayyah was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammad and wife of third Rashidun caliph Uthman (second entry in list):
- Ruqayyah bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn - grandson of Muhammad.
- Ruqayyah bint Muhammad, daughter of Muhammad and Khadija bint Khuwaylid.
- Empress Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, first wife and chief consort of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.
- Ruqaya Al-Ghasra, a Bahraini athlete. She was one of the first women to represent Bahrain at the Olympic Games.
- Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i, Nigerian Minister of Education.
- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, British Muslim author and winner of the Global Peace and Unity Lifetime Achievement Award for literature.
- Ruqayyah Boyer, a Dutch-Guyanese model and the current title holder of Miss Guyana Universe.
- Ruqaiya Hasan, a professor of linguistics, she has researched and published widely in the areas of verbal art, culture, context, text, lexicogrammar and semantic variation.
See also
- Arabic name
- List of peoples
- List of adjectival forms of place names
- Most popular given names
References
- Grant, Russell (2009). Zodiac Baby Names the Complete Book of Baby Names Defined by Star Sign (1st ed.). Hay House, Inc. p. 323. ISBN 9781401926830.
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