Zehyra — The given name Zehyra: its Arabic meaning | zehyra.com
Zehyra means flower or blossom, and it comes from the Arabic word zahra.
The name Zehyra derives from the Arabic word zahra, which means flower or blossom. The standard transliteration of that word is the 5-letter spelling Zahra; Zehyra is a 6-letter form of the same root.
Pronunciation follows the spelling: ZEH-hee-rah, three syllables with the stress on the first. The inserted 'y' is what makes the middle syllable explicit, separating the name into three clean beats.
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The root carries a historical association as well as a botanical one. Fatimah al-Zahra, the 7th-century figure whose birth is generally dated between 605 and 615 CE, bears an epithet built on the same word, which is why this name family has been in use for well over a millennium.
Nothing in the longer spelling alters the meaning. A Zehyra, a Zahra and a Zehra all carry the same sense — flower, blossom — and differ only in how the sound is mapped to Latin letters.
For how the other spellings compare letter by letter, see the variants page; for how often the name is actually given in the United States, see the popularity page.
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