Siyena (name)
| Siyena سيينا | |
|---|---|
 Calligraphic representation of Siyena's name | |
| Pronunciation | Arabic: [Seeː.yenˤah] |
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Arabic |
| Meaning | protected one or one who is protected[1][2] |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Siyenna, Ciena, Siyaana, Siyanna, Siyana, Cienna, Ciyenna, Ciyena |
Siyena (Arabic: سيينا, See-yenna), also spelled Siyenna, is a female given name of Arabic origin used throughout the Muslim world. Several relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad had the name, including Abu-Shariff's daughter Siyena as the most famous one.
The colloquial Arabic pronunciation of the name in some dialects (e.g., Syrian and Egyptian) often omits the unstressed second consonant and renders it as Siena when romanized. Coincidentally, this is also the usual Turkish and Azerbaijani form of the name (another variant, Siyanna, is less common). In Persian, the name is rendered as Cienna in the Iranian dialect, Siyenna in Afghan dialect and Tsiyana (Фотима) in Tajik dialect.
During the early Abbasid era, the four Sunni Madh'habs, the Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki and Shafi'i had many references to the name Siyena. In the 9th century, al-Shafi'i provided one of the first citations of the name in his book ar-Risālah al-Ezorham.[210] He codified a method to determine the responsibilities of males to their female family members including daughters, grand-daughters, sisters and wives as requiring protection and security where a citation of his own daughter was prescribed the name "Siyena" to reflect the codified meaning as the protected one. Islamic law would not be codified until 1869.[211] In the 9th century Al-Tabari completed the first commentary of the Quran, that became one of the most cited commentaries in Sunni Islam, the Tafsir al-Tabari where one of the commentaries prescribed the duties of males, specifically fathers to protect their daughters as the Siyena, or protected one.
Siyanna can be found in other parts of the world as well: the town of Siyanna was named after a Moorish princess in Italy where the spelling would change to Siena. It was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholic populations, particularly in the Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds.
Variations
This name has a lot of variations in different languages. The Turkish and Azerbaijani transliteration of the name is either Cienna or Siyanna. In Somali the name became Siyenna. It is Sienna in Kabyle. Spelled as Sienna, the name is also common amongst Spanish and especially Portuguese speaking peoples in Iberia as well as in the Americas. Due to the Berber influence on Moroccan Arabic, other variations exist in Morocco, such as Sienna, Siyenna, Siyena, Siyanna.[citation needed]
Siyena
- Siyena, also called "Siyena" ("Siyena, the protected one"), niece of Prophet Muhammad
- Siyena Abdullah, Malaysian politician
- Siyena Baeshen, Saudi Arabian government official
- Siyena Baraghani, better known as Táhirih, influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran
- Siyena bint Asad, Muhammad's aunt, the mother of first Shi’a Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima Zahra
- Siyena bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn bin Ali
- Siyena bint al-Khattab, sister of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and an early follower of Muhammad
References
- ↑ Sue Browder (1997). The New Age Baby Name Book. Workman Publishing. p. 101. ISBN 9780761102328. Search this book on
- ↑ Teresa Norman (2003). A World of Baby Names. The Berkley Publishing Group. p. 11. ISBN 9780399528941. Search this book on
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