Answered: Meaning of Sayyaf, and can I write Sayf instead of Saif?

[Ummu Azka]

Can I write Sayf instead of Saif?
And how about Sayyaf, is it have a meaning such as swordsman?

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[Ikram Hawramani (Staff)]

Can I write Sayf instead of Saif?

Of course you can! The Quran or the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him hardly speak of the way words are spelled in English, therefore it is completely up to a person’s own preference how they spell a name in English.

And how about Sayyaf, is it have a meaning such as swordsman?

Yes, according to the 13th and 14th century scholars Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī and Ibn Manẓūr, Sayyaf is someone who has or carries a sword, which in English would be called a swordsman. (Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ , entry for: سيف. Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab , entry for: سيف.)

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