Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Lamia Name Meaning in Islam
Shining dark, top Levantine girls name.
- Meaning
- Shining dark, top Levantine girls name
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ل-م-ع
- Urdu
- لامیہ
- Pronunciation
- la-MI-a
- Lucky number
- 5
Is Lamia an Islamic name? Yes. Lamia is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Shining dark, top Levantine girls name. It was carried by Lamia Beshara. Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and claim nothing that belongs to God alone, and this name meets both.
Read the letter-by-letter reading ↓Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
ل-م-ع. From l-m-ʿ (to shine, flash). Lāmiʿa: 'shining, glittering, especially dark and shining like night-eyes'.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Lamia joins fire to earth, the will that decides with the patience that lasts. This is a name that asks its bearer to burn steadily rather than in bursts, and to plant what the fire has cleared. Running through the reading is Al-Latif, the Gracious, carried as an unshowy kindness that reaches the tender parts, and beside it Al-Tawwab, the Relenting, adding the readiness to return and be returned to. A person named Lamia is the kind of person a village grows around.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Shining, dark-lipped beauty, from root l-m-y (lumya, dark, shining lips). In classical Arabic poetry, the dark lips are the highest beauty standard, the lips so intensely red they appear dark. Lamia names the girl of intense beauty. Top Levantine and Iraqi girls name. Lamia Abbas Amara. Iraqi poet.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Lamia Beshara . Lebanese actress and television presenter
How to Pronounce Lamia
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Variants of this name
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Names sharing the ل Lam influence
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Lamia
What does the name Lamia mean?
Behind the meaning sits each letter, each with a quality of its own. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about Lamia? → What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Lamia? →
Is Lamia mentioned in the Quran?
For Lamia and many others, the Quran is the deepest source of the letters and the meaning. Browse all Quranic names in our collection →
What does Lamia mean in Urdu?
The Urdu tradition preserved the meaning of each Arabic letter, the same letters that build Lamia. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Lamia a good Islamic name?
The letters of Lamia, each with its own reading, are laid out above ↑ jump to the letters reading ↑
Is Lamia a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Lamia in Ilm ul Huroof?
This is Ilm ul Huroof, the classical Islamic science of letters in the line of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. Every Arabic letter under Lamia is an ontological principle, not just a sound. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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