Girl · Arabic (Urdu usage) · Muslim
Bareera
بریرہSay it ba-REE-ra
- Meaning today
- Pious, faithful, dutiful
- Original meaning
- "a single berry of the arāk (toothbrush) tree" Lane, p. 177
- Say it
- ba-REE-ra
- Written
- بریرہ
- Other spellings
- Barira, Bareerah, Barirah
Bareera
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Bareera meaning
Bareera (بریرہ) is a Muslim girl's name of Arabic origin (Urdu usage).
Meaning today
Pious, faithful, dutiful
Original Arabic (Urdu usage) meaning
"a single berry of the arāk (toothbrush) tree"
Source: Lane, An Arabic–English Lexicon (1863–93), Book I, Part 1, p. 177 · entry barīr (بَرِيرٌ), n. un. barīra · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
Bareera (بریرہ) is the name of a woman remembered in the hadith: Barīra, a freedwoman of Aisha, whose case is cited in Islamic law on marriage after freedom. Lane's lexicon explains the word barīr as the fruit of the arāk tree, the shrub whose twigs give the miswāk, with barīra meaning a single berry. Name lists today usually give Bareera as "pious", "faithful" or "dutiful", linking it to birr, "goodness". That sense belongs to a related root rather than to the word itself, so it is best seen as the meaning families now attach to the name.
References: Lane, Arabic–English Lexicon, barīr, Book I p. 177 · Sahih al-Bukhari 6758 (Barira)
Famous namesakes
- Barira, freedwoman of Aisha
Spellings
Bareera · Barira · Bareerah · Barirah