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zakariya

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English

Syllables
za-kariya
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, as an Islamic prophet.

name

A male given name from Arabic

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: زَكَرِيَّا, ܙܟ݂ܼܿܪܝܵܐ, זְכַרְיָה

Inflected Forms

Zakaria (alternative) Zakariyya (alternative)

Questions

What does zakariya mean?
Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, as an Islamic prophet.
Where does zakariya come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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