Mélissa
ميليساIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Bee (Greek mélissa), from the word for honey
- For
- A girl
- Origin
- Greek
- Other spellings
- Melissa, Mélisa
Islamic naming guidance
- Permissible
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources
In Greek myth Melissa is a nymph who fed the infant Zeus honey, and priestesses of Demeter were called Melissae; today the name is simply the word for bee. Low confidence: a scholar's call.
Confidence: low
Sources
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