girl name · Source-indexed record
Nilah
نيله
Nilah is an Arabic name for girls that means water hyacinth, which is a group of beautiful flowering plants (scientific name Eichhornia). It can also refer to a navy blue pigment extracted from said plants.
- Arabic spelling
- نيله
- Pronunciation
- NEE-lahAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- ArabicSource-stated
- Gender
- girl
- First letter
- N
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Nilah
Nilah is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a female name. The source records its meaning as “Nilah is an Arabic name for girls that means water hyacinth, which is a group of beautiful flowering plants (scientific name Eichhornia). It can also refer to a navy blue pigment extracted from said plants.”. Its origin label is stated directly in the source text. Its reader-friendly phonetic spelling is generated deterministically from the published transliteration and should be reviewed for names with complex or region-specific pronunciation.
Meaning and Arabic spelling are sourced from the Muslim Names Dataset or, where provided, the record-specific provenance URL. Origin labels are source-stated where available or transparently inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Phonetic respellings are generated reading guides, not native-speaker recordings. See Sources & methodology for data limitations.