Meaning of زلیخا | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The name popularly given to Potiphar's wife, a Biblical and Quranic figure who falls in love with the enslaved Joseph and attempts to seduce him; a common character in Persian poetry.
2. a female given name from Arabic

Examples

“من از آن حسن روزافزون که یوسف داشت دانستم، که عشق از پرده عصمت برون آرد زلیخا را”

I have learnt, from that daily-increasing beauty that Joseph had, that Love will bring Zoleykha out from behind the curtain of modesty.

“غنی روز سیاه پیر کنعان را تماشا کن، که نور دیده اش روشن کرد چشم زلیخا را.”

Ghani, behold the darkened days of the old man of Canaan as the light of his eyes now those of Zuleikha.

CEFR level