Barra (Name)

Barra (transliteration: Barra, Arabic: برّة) is an Arabic name for girls that means “affectionate”, “kind”, “gentle”, “dutiful”, “pious”, “doer of good deeds”, “virtuous”.¹²³

Barra may also be spelled Barrah, Bara, and Barah.

There are three female Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Barra:

• Barra bint Abi Tajrat برة بنت أبي تجراة
• Barra bint Abi Salamah برة بنت أبي سلمة
• Barra bint Aamir برة بنت عامر

Below is the name Barra written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Barra written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بر
2. Al-Zamakhsharī, Asās al-Balāgha (d. 1143 CE), برر.
3. Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya (d. 1003 CE), برر.