Leyla

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Talysh (Azerbaijan/Iran)

Meaning

a Talysh feminine name of Arabic origin meaning night or dark-haired beauty, made immortal in the Azerbaijani and Persian literary tradition through the epic romance of Leyli and Majnun — the story of an all-consuming love that cannot be fulfilled in this world — celebrated by the twelfth-century Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi; the Talysh, a northwestern Iranian people living along the Caspian coast in southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, share this name with their Azerbaijani, Persian, and broader Turkic-speaking neighbours, reflecting the deep literary and cultural interpenetration of the Caspian region's civilisations; a daughter named Leyla is placed within a tradition of literary passion and poetic beauty that spans more than eight centuries

Gender

female