Gender: Feminine
Origin: Arabic صفيّة
Meaning: “pure.”
(sah-FEE-yah)
The name is derived from the Arabic word, saf صاف (pure).
The name was borne by Safiyya Bint Huyayy, a Jewish-Bedouin woman who converted to Islam and became one of the Prophet Mohammed’s wives. It was also borne by Safiyya bint ‘Abd al-Muttalib, a Sahaba of Mohammed.
As of 2010, its Maghrebin form of Safia was the 293rd most popular female name in France. Her variant forms appear throughout the French top 500; their rankings are as follows:
- # 297 (Safa)
- # 466 (Safiya)
Safiyyah was the 10th most popular female name in Malaysia (2011)
Other forms of Safiya include:
- Safija Сафия (Albanian/Bosnian/Bulgarian/Central Asian)
- Safia (Algerian/Berber/Moroccan/Tunisian)
- Safa (Arabic)
- Saffiya (Arabic)
- Safiye (Azeri/Kurdish/Turkish)
- Shafiyah (Indonesian)
- Safiyyah (Malaysian)
- Safiya صفیه (Persian)
No. I will not remove this image. This is not a picture of Safiyya.
This is a classical piece of art work. This has nothing to do with the prophet’s wife named Safiyya. I don’t know who it is supposed to be.
Please don’t tell me how to run my blog and anymore rude ignorant comments I receive from you will be blocked and deleted from my blog.
Also, I recommend contacting wikicommons and the museum this picture belongs to take this image down since it offends you so much. Learn how to read as well.
This blog post is about the name Safiyya. Nowhere did I say the image represented the Prophet Mohammed’s wife of the same name.
You must be fun at parties
Again, I am interested in the origins of names
I am not interested in your judgmental religious spiels. Please only comment on my posts if you have demonstrated that you have read them or you actually have something useful to provide.