Sughrā

Sughrā (صُغْرَى) is a historically attested Arabic feminine epithet meaning "the smaller" or "the younger," formed from the root ص-غ-ر (ṣ-ḡ-r) denoting smallness. In pre-modern and classical Arabic naming conventions scholars and chroniclers used Sughrā to differentiate a younger woman from an elder with the same personal name; it appears in biographical dictionaries and genealogical records as an epithet appended to female names. While not prominent in the Quran as a proper name, Sughrā is well grounded in Arabic morphology and usage. The name is concise and formal, often preserved as part of inherited family epithets in historical manuscripts and regional registers. For related stylistic and semantic comparisons see [[Ilham]] and [[Naghma]] which appear in adjacent thematic clusters; this entry aligns with Batch ID 28661 for cataloging rare Islamic ladies' names with Arabic roots.