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RUQAYYAH
GENDER:
Feminine
USAGE:
Arabic
OTHER SCRIPTS:
رقيّة
(Arabic)
Meaning & History
Derived either from Arabic
رقى
(ruqia)
meaning "rise, ascent" or from
رقية
(ruqyah)
meaning "spell, charm, incantation". This was the name of one of the daughters of the Prophet
Muhammad
. She became a wife of
Uthman
, the third caliph of the Muslims.
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