Laila (first name)
Laila , Leila or Leyla ( Arabic ليلى, DMG Lailā or Hebrew לילה) is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Laila, spelling variants Leila and Leyla , is an Arabic given name and means "night". Other spellings are Lajla (h) and Layla. Originally the name goes back to lailāʾ or lailā meaning 'night' ("most beautiful of all nights"). Ibn Manzur writes : "Then the woman was named after this". The name is old and occurs both in pre-Islamic times and around Mohammed . The tragic love story Majnūn Lailā is known in Arabic beautiful literature and as Leyla and Majnun in Persian and world literature.
Laila means “the wise” in Finnish ; alternatively, a derivation from the Scandinavian name Aila is assumed (a variant of Helge ). The meaning is also given with "the light in the dark" or "violet".
variants
Due to the inconsistent rendering of the Arabic script with Latin letters, there are many different ways of writing. Further variants are Laeila, Lajla, Layla, Leïla and Lejla (the spellings with j occur in the area of the former Yugoslavia and in Albania).
Well-known namesake
Laila
- Laila (* 1980), Indian actress
- Laila Ali (* 1977), boxer and daughter of Muhammad Ali
- Laila Biali (* 1980), Canadian jazz singer, songwriter and pianist
- Laila Bokhari (* 1974), Norwegian political scientist and politician
- Laila Dåvøy (* 1948), Norwegian politician
- Laila Freivalds (* 1942), Swedish politician
- Laila Lamoh , also LAILA (* 1973), German singer and composer
- Laila Kaland (1939–2007), Norwegian politician
- Laila Kinnunen (1939-2000), Finnish singer
- Laila Lalami (* 1968), Moroccan writer
- Laïla Marrakchi (* 1975), Moroccan director and screenwriter
- Laila Schou Nilsen (1919–1998), Norwegian speed skater, ski racer and tennis player
- Laila Robins (born 1959), American actress
- Laila Rouass (born 1971), British actress
- Laila Samuelsen (* 1976), Norwegian singer-songwriter
- Laila Selbæk (* 1981), Norwegian cross-country skier
- Laila Shawa (* 1940), Palestinian artist
- Laila Soliman (* 1981), Egyptian playwright, dramaturge and director
- Laila Traby (* 1979), French medium and long distance runner
Leila
- Leila Aboulela (* 1964), Sudanese writer
- Leila Alaoui (1982-2016), French-Moroccan photographer and video artist
- Leila Aman (* 1977), Ethiopian long-distance runner
- Leila Barros (* 1971), Brazilian volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Leïla Bekhti (* 1984), French actress
- Leila Chaled (* 1944), PFLP member and hijacker
- Leila Denmark (1898–2012), American pediatrician
- Leila Hatami (* 1972), Iranian actress
- Leila Hyams (1905–1977), American actress
- Leila Josefowicz (* 1977), Canadian violinist
- Leila K. (* 1971), Swedish pop singer of Moroccan descent
- Leila Lassouani (* 1977), Algerian weightlifter
- Leila de Lima (* 1959), Filipino lawyer, university professor and politician
- Leila Lopes (* 1986), Angolan beauty queen and Miss Angola 2011
- Leila Lowfire , (* 1993), German podcaster, model and actress
- Leïla Martial (* 1984), French jazz singer
- Leila Marzocchi (* 1959), Italian author and cartoonist
- Leila Mes'chi (* 1968), Georgian tennis player
- Leila Mimmack (* 1993), British actress
- Leila Negra (* 1930), German pop singer and actress, see Marie Nejar
- Leila Pazooki (* 1977), Iranian artist who lives and works in Berlin
- Leila Piccard (* 1971), French ski racer
- Leila Shenna , Moroccan film actress
- Leïla Slimani (* 1981), French-Moroccan writer and journalist
- Leila Vaziri (* 1985), American swimmer
Layla
- Layla Dawson (1949–2015), British architect and architecture critic
- Layla El (* 1977), British dancer, model and wrestler
- Layla Roberts (* 1974), American actress and model
- Layla Timergazi (* 2001), New Zealand chess player
Leyla
- Leyla Erbil (1931–2013), Turkish writer
- Leyla Gencer (1928-2008), Turkish opera singer (soprano)
- Leyla Güngör (* 1993), Swedish-Turkish soccer player
- Leyla Îmret (* 1987/88), Turkish local politician of Kurdish origin
- Leyla Onur (* 1945), German European politician
- Leyla Qasim (1952–1974), Iraqi dissident of Kurdish origin
- Leyla Zana (* 1961), Turkish politician of Kurdish origin
swell
- Wilfried Seibicke : Historical German first name book . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, p. 5, ISBN 3-11-016819-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lisān al-ʿarab: l – y – l.
- ↑ See the names in the scholarly lexicon of al-Mizzī , vol. 35, p. 300f, in the scholarly biography of the city of Damascus by Ibn ʿAsākir , vol. 70, pp. 56-75 and in the class book of Muhammad ibn Saʿd , vol. 8, P. XXI: Alphabetical index