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Maliha

مليحةIn Arabic

Meaning
Graceful and lovely, pretty
About the name
Malih comes from milh, 'salt'. Wiktionary suggests that because salt was costly and made food tasty, the word came to mean 'beautiful'.
For
A girl
Origin
Arabic
Other spellings
Maleeha, Malihah

Islamic naming guidance

  • Permissible

Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.

Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources

Confidence: high

Sources

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