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Minha

منحہ

Say it MIN-haa

Meaning today: Gift, gift from God
Original meaning: "a gift, a thing given freely; first, a lent milch-camel" Lane, p. 2737
Say it: MIN-haa
Written: منحہ
Other spellings: Minhah

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Minha meaning

Minha (منحہ) is a Muslim girl's name of Arabic origin.

A gift, a thing given freely; first, a lent milch-camel

Also used to mean: gift from God

Minha comes from Arabic minḥa, from the root m-n-ḥ, 'to give'. Lane's lexicon explains that its first sense was the loan of a she-camel, ewe or goat, lent so that the borrower could drink her milk for a while and then return her. From there the word came to mean simply a gift, a thing given freely, and Lane records the related mannāḥ, 'one who gives many gifts'. Baby-name lists usually translate Minha as 'gift', and some as 'gift from God'; the dictionary gives the plain sense of a gift, without the religious addition. The name is used for girls by Muslim families in India and Pakistan.

Source: Lane, An Arabic–English Lexicon, Book I, Part 7 (1885), p. 2737 · entry مِنْحَة (root منح) · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Lane, minḥa, p. 2737 (scan) · Lane, mannāḥ, p. 2738 (scan)