Lamiae
لمياءIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Dark-lipped, a classical Arab beauty ideal; popularly read as 'radiant'
- For
- A girl
- Origin
- Arabic
- Other spellings
- Lamia, Lamiaa, Lamiya, Lamya, Lamyae
Islamic naming guidance
- Permissible
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources
Not the Greek monster Lamia. In classical Arabic dictionaries lamya' describes a woman with the attractive dark tint of the inner lip (Ibn Faris, Lisan al-Arab); many modern name sites and Wikipedia read it as 'shining' instead.
Confidence: medium
Sources
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