- Meaning
- Ease, prosperity (Quran 94:5-6)
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ي-س-ر
- Urdu
- یُسْرَی
Is Yousra an Islamic name? Yes. Yousra is an established name in Muslim use. Its settled meaning is: Ease, prosperity (Quran 94:5-6). It was carried by Al-Yusra.. 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 ↓Yousra Name Meaning in Islam
A reading of Yousra: the meaning, the letters, the demand it makes on the one who carries it.
Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
ي-س-ر (to be easy). This root is the linguistic-spiritual family of the name; other names sharing the same root carry a related weight.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Seen س the flowing surface.
Ra ر motion, mercy in movement.
Alif ا the vertical axis.
Ya reaches, Seen flows, Ra moves in mercy, Alif grounds. Ease as a posture.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Yousra'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 Yousra 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
یسری Yousra کا مطلب: آسانی، اللہ کی طرف سے آسانی۔ قرآن مجید کی اصطلاح۔
Yousra (Arabic yusrā) is the Quranic word for divinely-granted ease. The Prophet said: 'Islam is ease.' The Quran says: 'Allah desires ease for you, and does not desire hardship' (Baqarah 2:185). Naming a daughter Yousra is a du'a for her: may her whole life be eased.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Al-Yusra. A Quranic term for divinely-granted ease.
How to Pronounce Yousra
YOOS-ra.
Common variant spellings: yusra, yusrah.
See also: Muslim Baby Names A to Z, The 25 Quranic Prophets, Aathaar: Real Heroes of Islamic History, Ilm ul Huroof: The Science of Letters.
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