Ruqayya ( ar, رقيّة) is an
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...
female
Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gametes than a male. Females a ...
given name meaning "spell, enchantment, or incantation.”
It is not to be confused with a separate Arabic term "Ruqia" from Arabic رقى (ruqia) meaning “to rise” or “ascend.”
Ruqayya bint Muhammad was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and wife of third Rashidun caliph Uthman.
Other notable people with the name include:
* Ruqayya bint Ali, daughter of Ali (cousin of Muhammad)
* Ruqayya bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn ibn Ali, Husayn (grandson of Muhammad)
* Empress Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, first wife and chief consort of the Mughal Emperor Akbar
* Ruqaya Al-Ghasra, a Bahraini athlete. She was one of the first women to represent Bahrain at the Olympic Games
* Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i, Nigerian Minister of Education
* Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, British Muslim author and winner of the Global Peace and Unity Lifetime Achievement Award for literature
* Ruqayyah Boyer, a Dutch people, Dutch-Guyanese people, Guyanese model and Miss Guyana Universe
* Ruqaiya Hasan, a professor of linguistics
See also
*Arabic name
*List of peoples
*List of adjectival forms of place names
*Most popular given names
References
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Arabic feminine given names
Given names