Leila (name)

Leyla (Arabic ليلى, DMG Laila or Hebrew לילה ) is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning

The name comes from the Arabic (Arabic ليلى, Laila DMG ) and is widely used as a first name in the Arab- Muslim world. Originally, the name goes back to Laila Laila ʾ or in meaning: "very dark, long night " back. These Ibn Manzur: " then after that the woman has been named ". The name is old and occurs both in the pre-Islamic times as well as in the vicinity of Mohammed. The tragic love story of Laila Majnun is very well known in the Arabic belles-lettres.

Variants

Fragmentation of the reproduction of the Arabic script with the Latin alphabet, many different spellings result. Laila ( and Leila ) comes but also as Finnish first name meaning " the way " before. Other variants are Laeila, Layla, Layla and Lejla ( the spellings with j come in the former Yugoslavia and Albania before ).

Name winners

• Laila Ali ( born 1977 ), American boxer
• Leila Aman ( born 1977 ), Ethiopian long-distance runner
• Leila Denmark (1898-2012), American physician
• Layla El (born 1978 ), British dancer, model and professional wrestler
• Leyla Erbil (1931-2013), Turkish writer
• Leyla Güngör (* 1993), Swedish -Turkish football player
• Leila Josefowicz ( born 1977 ), Canadian violinist
• Leila K. ( b. 1971 ), Swedish pop singer
• Leila Khaled ( born 1944 ), Palestinian Flugzeugentführerin
• Leila Lassouani ( born 1977 ), Algerian weightlifter
• Leila Martial ( born 1984 ), French jazz singer
• Leila Negra (* 1930), German pop singer and actress
• Leyla Onur (* 1945), German politician Europe
• Leila Piccard (born 1971 ), French alpine skier
• Leyla Qasim (1952-1974), Kurdish Iraqi dissident
• Leyla Zana ( born 1961 ), Turkish Kurdish politician

Others

• Laila, the Isla del Perejil Arabic name ( Parsley Island) in the Strait of Gibraltar
• Layla, a famous song by Eric Clapton from 1970, which is also named for his album of the same year.
• Leyla, award-winning novel by Feridun Zaimoglu, published in 2006