لِينَة
Girl Arabic origin Līna
In the Quran“Young palm tree” according to the Quran; “softness” by the root l-y-n
The word as it is recited in the Quran: Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, Al-Hashr 59:5.
The word occurs once in the Quran: “Whatever palm tree (lina) you cut down or left standing on its roots, it was by Allah’s permission” (59:5).
Lina is a Quranic word: according to the commentators, a lina is a palm tree, or a variety of palm with fine fruit (59:5). The root l-y-n also expresses gentleness and suppleness (layyin, “soft”), hence the reading “gentle, tender”. In Europe, Lina is also a name of other origins (short for Carolina, Paulina…).
Yes: the word Lina appears in the Quran once, in one surah.
مَا قَطَعْتُم مِّن لِّينَةٍ أَوْ تَرَكْتُمُوهَا قَآئِمَةً عَلَىٰٓ أُصُولِهَا فَبِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ وَلِيُخْزِىَ ٱلْفَٰسِقِينَ ٥
Whatever you have cut down of [their] palm trees or left standing on their trunks - it was by permission of Allāh and so He would disgrace the defiantly disobedient.
All the words of the root ل ي ن in the Quran (5 occurrences)
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Lina in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
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