Leila (Hebrew: ?????; Arabic: ?????) is a feminine given name in the Persian and Arabic languages.
| Pronunciation |
/le?l?/ Arabic: Persian: |
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| Gender | Female |
| Word/name | Arabic and Persian |
| Meaning | "Dusk"/ "Night" |
| Region of origin | Middle East |
| Related names | Lila, Layal |
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Leila is the Arabic and Persian word for "night": laylah. The identification of the word "night" as the name of an angel originates with the interpretation of "Rabbi Yochanan" (possibly Yochanan ben Zakkai, c. 30–90 AD) who read "At night and his servants deployed against them and defeated them” (Genesis 14.15, JPS) as "by night" (Sanhedrin 96a).
The story of Qays and Layla or Layla and Majnun is based on the romantic poems of Qais Ibn Al-Mulawwah (??? ?? ??????), who was nicknamed Majnoon Layla (????? ????), Arabic for "madly in love with Layla", his cousin Layla Al-Amiriah (???? ????????) in 7th century Arabia. His poems are considered the paragon of unrequited chaste love. They later became a popular romance in medieval Iran,[2] and use of the name spread accordingly. The name gained popularity further afield in the Muslim World, amongst Turkic peoples and in the Balkans and India.
Variant spellings include Laela, Laelah, Laila, Layla, Leïla, Leighla, Lejla and Leyla.
In the Nordic countries, Laila or Lajla (pronounced lie-lah) is derived from the Sami name Láilá, the Sami variant of Helga which means holy.[3]
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People with this name
Laila
- Laila Ali, boxer and daughter of Muhammad Ali
- Laila Ali Abdulla, First Lady of the Maldives
- Laila Bagge, Swedish manager and songwriter
- Laila Freivalds, Swedish Social-Democrat
- Laila Harré, New Zealand politician
- Laila Hirvisaari, Finnish author and writer
- Laila El Khalifi (better known as Leila K), Swedish singer and rapper
- Laila Lalami, novelist and essayist
- Laila Mehdin, Indian actress
- Laila Morse, EastEnders actress
- Laila Pakalni?a, Latvian director
- Laila Rouass, English actress
- Laila Soueif, Egyptian human and women's rights activist
- Laila Stien, Norwegian writer
- DJ Laila, Filipino radio and television presenter
Layla
- Layla (disambiguation)
- Layla El, British wrestler, dancer, model, actress, and entrepreneur
- MC Layla Handbury, Australian MC
- Layla Kayleigh, G4 host on the US television program, Attack of the Show!
- Layla Kaylif, British Emirati singer
- Layla Palmer, singer and keyboardist for the band Amity Lane
- Layla al-Akhyaliyya, 8th century AD Ummayad Arab poet
- Layla McCarter
Leighla
- Leighla Schultz, former fiancée of Seth Rollins[importance?]
Leila
- Leila Aboulela, Sudanese writer
- Leila Ahmed, Egyptian-American professor
- Leila Anderson, South African performance artist
- Leila Arab, London-based musician of Persian descent
- Leila Barros, Brazilian volleyball player
- Leila Bela, Iranian-American musician, actress and writer
- Leila de Lima, Filipino human rights activist
- Leila Denmark, American pediatrician
- Leila Forouhar, Iranian singer and actress
- Leila George, American-Australian actress
- Leila Goldkuhl, American model, runner-up on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 19
- Leila Hatami, Iranian actress, Leila
- Leila Hayes, Australian actress
- Leila Hyams, American film actress
- Leila Josefowicz, American violinist
- Leila K (born Laila El Khalifi), Swedish singer and rapper
- Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and lyricist
- Leila Khaled, Palestinian hijacker and PFLP member
- Leila Lopes (pageant titleholder), Angolan Miss Universe 2011 winner
- Leila McKinnon, Iranian-Australian journalist
- Leila N. Morris (properly, Lelia N. Morris, 1862–1929), American hymnwriter
- Leila Mourad, Egyptian singer and movie star
- Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran
- Leila Säälik (born 1941), Estonian actress
- Leïla Slimani (born 1981), French-Moroccan writer and journalist
- Leila Sobral, Brazilian basketball player
- Leila Al Solh, Lebanese public figure
- Leila Tong, Hong Kong actress and singer
- Leila Vaziri, Iranian-American swimmer, world record holder
- Leila Waddell, mistress of British occultist Aleister Crowley
Lejla
- Lejla Hot, Serbian singer of Albanian descent
Leyla
- Leyla Achba, princess at the Ottoman Empire court
- Leyla Ba?c? (born 1990), Turkish-Dutch footballer
- Leyla Chihuán, Peruvian volleyball player
- Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano opera singer
- Leyla Güngör (born 1993), Turkish-Swedish footballer
- Leyla Mamedbekova,the first female professor in Azerbaijan in the field of pathology, the first female forensic medical expert, and the first female chief pathologist of Azerbaijan.
- Leyla Mammadbeyova, the first female Azerbaijani aviator
- Leyla Milani, Canadian model of Iranian descent
- Leyla Neyzi, Turkish academic
- Leyla P?nar, Turkish harpsichordist and musicologist
- Leyla Qasim, Kurdish activist in Iraq
- Leyla Saz, composer, poet and writer of Cretan Turkish descent
- Leyla Tu?utlu, Turkish beauty queen
- Leyla Vakilova, Azerbaijani ballerina
- Leyla Zana, Kurdish politician from Turkey
Film, music and literature
- Laila, Norwegian silent film starring Mona Mårtenson
- Laila (album), album by Shahin Badar
- Leila, song by Indochine in the album L'aventurier
Fictional and mythological characters
- Lailah, an angel of the night in Jewish mythology
- Layla in the classic Persian love story Layla and Majnun
- Leïla, heroine of Bizet's opera Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers), 1863
- Layla in the 1st Story Maxi CD ?Seisen no Iberia / ???????? of Sound Horizon
- Layla in the animated series Winx Club
- Layla Hamilton in the Japanese manga series Kaleido Star
- Layla Heartfilia in the Japanese manga series Fairy Tail
- Leyla Harding in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Layla Miller in the Marvel universe
- Layla from the Story of Tracy Beaker Series 3-5, portrayed by Cara Readle
- Layla Serizawa in the Japanese manga series NANA
- Leela (Doctor Who), a companion of the Fourth Doctor (1977–78)
- Leela in the animated TV show Futurama
- Leila, a playable character in Final Fantasy II
- Leila, a daughter of main character in video game by Saber Interactive Inversion
- Leila Hosnani, mother of Nessim (and Narouz) Hosnani, in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet
- Leila Morgan in Angel (1999 TV series) TV show
See also
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female names Leyla. |
- Leela (name)
- Leila (disambiguation)
- Lilith, name with the same etymological root
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