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Help[Opinions] Aziza
What do you think of the arabic name Aziza? (It also appears as an Aramaic masculine name in the book of Ezra, spelled עזיזא). It was my great-great-grandmother's name, with her surname being Maimon. She was born in Turkey, then emigrated to Ottoman Lybia.
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I had a college roommate named Aziza. She had family in the Middle East...I don't remember where, just that she knew Arabic and had been to Israel. Anyway, she was boisterous, and the name sounds boisterous to me. It seems like a good cross-cultural name (is easy to read and pronounce in English at least).
This message was edited 3/31/2023, 2:15 PM
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It sounds pleasant; I think I'd prefer Aziz, sound-wise, but both are good. I'm interested to see the feminine form ending in -a, which I usually associate with Indo-European languages.
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Feminine forms being the masculine version +a happens fairly often with Arabic names (technically it's a taa marbuta at the ending, which also makes regular words feminine; it's the symbol furthest left in the Arabic script on the Aziza name page...it's not exactly comparable to an A but does often sound like "ah").
This message was edited 3/31/2023, 3:05 PM
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Interesting - thank you!
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Interesting - thank you!
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