girl name · Source-indexed record
Suffah
سفاح
Suffah is an Arabic name for girls that means courtyard, square, plaza. It was the name of a place in the city of Medina where the the poor and migrants from Mecca took refuge and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah upon him) would look after them.
- Arabic spelling
- سفاح
- Pronunciation
- SOOF-fahAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- ArabicSource-stated
- Gender
- girl
- First letter
- S
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Suffah
Suffah is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a female name. The source records its meaning as “Suffah is an Arabic name for girls that means courtyard, square, plaza. It was the name of a place in the city of Medina where the the poor and migrants from Mecca took refuge and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah upon him) would look after them.”. 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.