Barza (Name)

Barza could refer to two different names:

Barza (1)

Barza (transliteration: Barza, Arabic: برزة) is an Arabic name for girls that means “dignified”, “self-respecting”, “respected”, “one whose good qualities are apparent”, “a dignified middle-aged woman who mixes with men and takes part in their conversation and is listened to (because of her wisdom and status)”.¹²³⁴

Barza may also be spelled Barzah.

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

• Barza bint Mas`ud برزة بنت مسعود

Below is the name Barza written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Barza written in Arabic kufi script:

Barza (2)

Barza (transliteration: Barza, Kurdish: بەرزە) is a Kurdish name for girls that means “the high one”, “the tall one”, “the respected one”, “the exalted one”, from the Kurdish word barz (“high”, “exalted”).⁵ It may also be a shortened form of Barzā, which means “first-born”.⁶

Below is the name Barza written in Kurdish:

1. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), برز.
2. Al-Muṭarrizī, al-Mughrib fī Tartīb al-Muʿrib (d. 1213 CE), برز.
3. Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha (d. c. 995 CE), برز.
4. Muḥammad al-Fattinī, Majmaʿ Biḥār al-Anwār fī Gharāʾib al-Tanzīl wa Laṭāʾif al-Akhbār (d. 1578 CE), برز.
5. Hazhar Mukriyani, Hanbāna Borīna (d. 1990), بەرز.
6. Ibid.