Yahya (name)

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nameYahya
related namesJehiah, Yohanan, John, Evan, Giovanni, Hans, Hovhannes, Ian, Ioan, Ioane, Ioannis, Ivan, Iven, Ifan, Jack, Jackson, Jan, Jane, Janez, Jean, Jhon, Joan, João, Johan, Johannes, Jonne, Jovan, Juan, Juhani, Seán, Shane, Siôn, Yohannes
regionArabia
originArabic
meaning(Hebrew loan): Yahweh is gracious
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| name = Yahya | image= | imagesize= | caption= | gender = Male (given name) Unisex (surname) | related names = Jehiah, Yohanan, John, Evan, Giovanni, Hans, Hovhannes, Ian, Ioan, Ioane, Ioannis, Ivan, Iven, Ifan, Jack, Jackson, Jan, Jane, Janez, Jean, Jhon, Joan, João, Johan, Johannes, Jonne, Jovan, Juan, Juhani, Seán, Shane, Siôn, Yohannes | footnotes = | region = Arabia | origin = Arabic | meaning = (Hebrew loan): Yahweh is gracious Yahya (), also spelled Yehia, is an Arabic male given name. Originally unrelated, it was already used as an Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew given name Yohanan (), or John, by pre-Islamic Arabian Jews. In the Qur'an, Yahya also appears as the Arabic equivalent of the given name of the prophet John the Baptist in Islam,, and for this reason, Yahya is now a comparatively common name in the Muslim world.

The related Biblical name of Jehiah () has the Arabic form Yaḥiyyā ()., with the exact Arabic consonantal text as the name Yahya.

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  1. [https://www.academia.edu/73883276/Al_Jallad_2021_The_Pre_Islamic_Divine_Name_%CA%BFsy_and_the_Background_of_the_Qur%CA%BE%C4%81nic_Jesus_with_Ali_al_Manaser]: "The name yaḥyā, for example, is not a direct port of yōḥānān or any of its derivatives, but is rather a pre-existing Arabic name—attested in Safaitic as yḥyy (C 614) and yḥyy (RWQ 115)—that was equated with John. Indeed, this equation was employed by Arabian Jews as well. The Jewish Nabataean funerary inscription JSNab 386 (dated 306 CE), from al-ʿUlā, was set up by a man named yḥyy bn šmʿwn, where yḥyy substitutes for the common Hebrew name ywḥnn (= yōḥānān).⁷¹ The two names derive from different roots, which demonstrates that phonetic proximity, rather than etymology, was the main driving force connecting them."
  2. [http://copticchurch.net/cgibin/bible/?r=1+chron+15%3A24&version=SVD&btn=View Van Dyck Bible]: [[1 Chronicles 15]]:24

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