Azza (Name)

Azza (transliteration: ʿAzza, Arabic: عزة) is an Arabic name for girls that means “young female gazelle”.¹²³ The gazelle is admired in Arabian culture for its agility and the beauty of its eyes.

There are four female Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Azza:

• Azza al-Ashja`iyyah عزة الأشجعية
• Azza bint al-Harith عزة بنت الحارث
• Azza bint Khabi lعزة بنت خابل
• Azza bint Abu Sufyan عزة بنت أبي سفيان

Below is the name Azza written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Azza written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Sultan Qaboos Encyclopedia of Arab Names (Sultan Qaboos University, 1985), عَزَّة.
2. Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha (d. c. 995 CE), عز.
3. Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya (d. 1003 CE), عزز.