Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jakariya

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
jakariya
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A male given name from Bengali, equivalent to English Zachary.

Etymology

From Bengali জাকারিয়া (jakariẏa), from Arabic زَكَرِيَّا (zakariyyā), from Classical Syriac ܙܟ݂ܼܿܪܝܵܐ (z'ḵaryāʾ), from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (z'kharyá, “Yahweh has remembered”). Doublet of Zach, Zachary, Zacharias, Zachariah, Zechariah, and Zakariya.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: জাকারিয়া, زَكَرِيَّا, ܙܟ݂ܼܿܪܝܵܐ, זְכַרְיָה

Inflected Forms

Jakaria (alternative) Jakarria (alternative)

Questions

What does jakariya mean?
Alternative form of Zakariya and (biblical) Zechariah.
Where does jakariya come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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