أَلَمْ يَجِدْكَ يَتِيمًا فَـَٔاوَىٰ ٦
Did He not find you an orphan and give [you] refuge?
وَجْد
Wajd: meaning of the name
Girl Arabic origin Wajd
“Intense emotion”, the love or longing that seizes the heart
Meaning of the name Wajd
Wajd is the verbal noun of wajada in its emotional sense: “to love passionately” or “to feel deep sorrow” (root w-j-d, that of wajada, “to find”). The word expresses the strong emotion that takes hold of the heart. Among Muslim mystics, wajd is a state of rapture that comes upon the heart unsought. The name is given to girls, mostly in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf; Turkish has kept vecd in the sense of “ecstasy”.
- In Arabic
- وَجْد وجد
- Transliteration
- Wajd
- Root
- و ج د · 107 occurrences in the Quran
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Arabic
Is Wajd in the Quran?
The name Wajd does not appear as such in the Quran, but its root (و ج د) occurs 107 times. Examples:
أَسْكِنُوهُنَّ مِنْ حَيْثُ سَكَنتُم مِّن وُجْدِكُمْ وَلَا تُضَآرُّوهُنَّ لِتُضَيِّقُوا۟ عَلَيْهِنَّ وَإِن كُنَّ أُو۟لَٰتِ حَمْلٍ فَأَنفِقُوا۟ عَلَيْهِنَّ حَتَّىٰ يَضَعْنَ حَمْلَهُنَّ فَإِنْ أَرْضَعْنَ لَكُمْ فَـَٔاتُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ وَأْتَمِرُوا۟ بَيْنَكُم بِمَعْرُوفٍ وَإِن تَعَاسَرْتُمْ فَسَتُرْضِعُ لَهُۥٓ أُخْرَىٰ ٦
Lodge them [in a section] of where you dwell out of your means and do not harm them in order to oppress them. And if they should be pregnant, then spend on them until they give birth. And if they breastfeed for you, then give them their payment and confer among yourselves in the acceptable way; but if you are in discord, then there may breastfeed for him [i.e., the father] another woman.
All the words of the root و ج د in the Quran (107 occurrences)
Is this name permissible?
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Wajd in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
Read the rules for choosing a name
This page is an aid to reflection, not a fatwa. For a personal case, ask a person of knowledge.
Writing Wajd in each language
- French
- Wajd, Ouajd
- English
- Wajd
- Spanish
- Wajd
- Turkish
- Vecd
- Arabic
- وَجْد