Zakariya

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Zakariya

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From Arabic زَكَرِيَّا (zakariyyā), from Classical Syriac ܙܟ݂ܼܿܪܝܵܐ (z'ḵaryāʾ), from Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (“Yahweh has remembered”). Doublet of Zachary, Zacharias, Zachariah, Zechariah, and Jakariya.

proper noun Zakaria · Zakariyya

Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, as an Islamic prophet.
A male given name from Arabic

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@misc{zakariya_2026,
  title = {Zakariya},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zakariya},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}