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Zara

زاراIn Arabic

Meaning
Disputed: a variant of Sarah, or from Arabic zahra, 'flower' or 'radiant'
About the name
Zara is often given as a form of Sarah, though Wikipedia says that link is not well supported; another theory makes it an Arabic version of Zahra. The name of Princess Anne's daughter Zara Phillips, born in 1981, may also have helped its spread.
For
A girl
Origin
Arabic, Hebrew
Other spellings
Zarah

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: low

Sources

No source is recorded for this ruling yet.

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