Ziya

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Gender Masculine
Usage Arabic, Turkish
Scripts ضياء(Arabic)
Pronounced Pron. dee-YA(Arabic)
Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as ZİYA in uppercase and ziya in lowercase.

Meaning & History

Derived from Arabic ضياء (diya) meaning "splendour, light, glow". This was the name of a 14th-century Islamic Indian historian.