All names
Delilah
دليلةIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Hebrew, perhaps 'she who weakened'; the meaning is uncertain
- About the name
- Delilah has been used in the United States and the United Kingdom since the mid-1600s. Wikipedia credits the 2006 song 'Hey There Delilah' with its recent rise. Dalila is a variant.
- For
- A girl
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Other spellings
- Dalila
Islamic naming guidance
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources
The best-known Delilah is the woman who betrays Samson in the Bible, and in English a 'delilah' is used for a treacherous seductress; Wiktionary glosses the Hebrew as 'she who weakened', while Wikipedia calls the meaning uncertain. Nothing in the rules covers it; low confidence: a scholar's call.
Confidence: low
Sources