Zariya

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proper noun

A female given name.

OriginArabic ذارية →
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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Zariyah

  1. A female given name.

    Fifteen-month-old Zariya Sutton-Pack wheezed as she waited for medical attention on a hospital gurney. Her chest and rib cage heaved under a white cotton onesie. It looked as though she were trying to draw air through a collapsed paper straw.

    2021 December 8, Wendy Ruderman, “COVID, flu, RSV in Philadelphia worsened by asthma as tripledemic swamps one hospital”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer

Origin

  1. Arabicذارية
  2. EnglishZariya

From Arabic ذارية (ḏāriya, literally “winnowing wind”).

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Cite this entry
APA

Zariya. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zariya

MLA

“Zariya.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zariya. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Zariya,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zariya.

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