Azba (Name)

Azba (transliteration: ʿAdhba, Arabic: عذبة) is an Arabic name for girls that means “pure and wholesome” (when describing water), “charming”, “agreeable”, “sweet”, “delightful”.¹² Azba may also refer to a type of tree that is poisonous to camels and a type of medicine.³

There is one Sahabiyyah (female Companion of the Prophet Muhammad ) named Azba:

• Azba bint Saad عذبة بنت سعد

Below is the name Azba written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Azba written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Al-Ṣāḥib bin ʿAbbād, Al-Muḥīṭ fī l-Lugha (d. c. 995 CE), عذب.
2. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), عذب.
3. Ibid.