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Gender Masculine
Scripts ضياء(Arabic)
Pronounced Pron. /dˤi.ˈjaːʔ/(Arabic)
Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as ZİYA in uppercase and ziya in lowercase.

Meaning & History

Means "splendour, light, glow" in Arabic. This was the name of a 14th-century Islamic Indian historian.