Muslim Name · Female · Arabic origin
Yosra Name Meaning in Islam
Ease.
- Meaning
- Ease. Egyptian spelling of Yusra. Yosra. Egyptian actress. 'With hardship comes ease (yusran)' (94:5)
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Girl
- Urdu
- یسریٰ
- Meaning in Urdu
- آسانی۔
- Pronunciation
- YOS-ra
- Lucky number
- 1
Is Yosra an Islamic name? On the site's editorial reading, yes (this is not a religious ruling): Yosra is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Ease. Egyptian spelling of Yusra. Yosra. Egyptian actress. 'With hardship comes ease (yusran)' (94:5). 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
ي-س-ر, feminine of Yāsir, from y-s-r, ease. Yusrā is the easy one, the gentle. Q 87:8 'wa-nuyassiruka li-l-yusrā', and We shall make you easy for the easy.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Ya reaching, Sin secret, Ra mercy, Ya reaching.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Yosra's letters draw from many elements at once, a full palette, not a single note. This is a name that asks its bearer to hold contradictions gracefully: warmth and steadiness, movement and depth. Running through the reading is Al-Qayyum, the Self-Sustaining, carried by a person as a self-holding constancy. A person named Yosra is many things at once, and gets to choose which shows up when.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Ease. Egyptian spelling of Yusra. Yosra. Egyptian actress.
How to Pronounce Yosra
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Variants of this name
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Names sharing the ي Ya influence
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Frequently Asked Questions
About the name Yosra
What does the name Yosra mean?
Behind the meaning sits each letter, each with a quality of its own. What does Ilm ul Huroof reveal about names like Yosra? →
Is Yosra mentioned in the Quran?
Quranic vocabulary lies behind a large share of Muslim names, Yosra included where its root appears. Browse all Quranic names in our collection →
What does Yosra mean in Urdu?
Centuries of Urdu writing carried the Arabic letter readings forward, and Yosra carries them too. How do Arabic letters travel into Urdu names? →
Is Yosra a good Islamic name?
The full letter-by-letter reading of Yosra sits above: jump to the letters reading ↑
Is Yosra a girl or boy name?
What is the spiritual meaning of Yosra 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 Yosra is an ontological principle, not just a sound. Read the full introduction to Ilm ul Huroof →
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