Baqeera (Name)

Baqeera (transliteration: Baqīra, Arabic: بقيرة) is an ancient Arabian name for girls that refers to a type of garment worn by women. Its literal meaning is “something that has a slit, because it was worn by putting it over the neck through a slit in the garment.¹ Ibn ʿAbbād says it is worn by Indian women.²

Baqeera is also spelled Baqira, Baqeerah and Baqirah.

There is one female Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Baqeera:

• Baqeera, wife of al-Qa`qaa`بقيرة امرأة القعقاع

Below is the name Baqeera written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Baqeera written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بقر.
2. Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha (d. c. 995 CE), بقر.