Safiyyah

Gender: 
Female

Meanings:

  • Form of Safiyya: Serene; pure; best friend (sah-FEE-yah—Arabic, North Africa).
  • Form of Safiya: Purity (sah-FEE-yah—Swahili, East Africa).
  • Form of the biblical Sophia: Wisdom (Greek).
  • Daughter of a Shaiqiya chief of the Nile area of the Sudan (1800s).
  • Morning (Hausa, West Africa).