72%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage Arabic, Urdu Scripts آسيا, آسية(Arabic) آسیہ(Urdu) Pronounced Pron. /ˈʔaː.si.jaː/(Arabic) /ˈʔaː.si.ja/(Arabic) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Possibly from Arabic أسي (ʾasiya) meaning "to be distressed, to be grieved" [1]. According to Islamic tradition this was the name of the wife of the pharaoh at the time of Moses. She took care of the infant Moses and later accepted monotheism. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details VariantAssia(Arabic (Maghrebi)) Other Languages & CulturesAsja(Bosnian) Asiye(Turkish) User SubmissionAsiyə PopularityDetails Last ranked #389 in 2023 England and Wales Last ranked #281 in 2023 Netherlands Categories emotions, feelings, grief, sadness, top 10 in Tajikistan Sources & References Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Spoken Language Services, 1979, page 21.
