Umayya is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Umayya meaning
- The progenitor of the Umayyad dynasty.
- A unisex given name from Arabic.
Using Umayya
- The main meaning on this page is: The progenitor of the Umayyad dynasty. | A unisex given name from Arabic.
- In the example corpus, umayya often appears in combinations such as: of umayya.
Context around Umayya
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Umayya
- In this selection, "umayya" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, banu stand out and add context to how "umayya" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include house of umayya if not and house of umayya that managed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "umayya" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with umayya
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Al-Andalus was a safe haven for the house of Umayya that managed to evade the Abbasids. (17 words)
The Abbasids claimed to be the true successors of Prophet Muhammad in replacing the Umayyad descendants of Banu Umayya by virtue of their closer bloodline to Muhammad. (27 words)
In the meantime, a call went out through the Muslim world that al-Andalus was a safe haven for friends of the house of Umayya, if not for Abd al-Rahman's scattered family that managed to evade the Abbasids. (40 words)
In the meantime, a call went out through the Muslim world that al-Andalus was a safe haven for friends of the house of Umayya, if not for Abd al-Rahman's scattered family that managed to evade the Abbasids. (40 words)
The Abbasids claimed to be the true successors of Prophet Muhammad in replacing the Umayyad descendants of Banu Umayya by virtue of their closer bloodline to Muhammad. (27 words)
Al-Andalus was a safe haven for the house of Umayya that managed to evade the Abbasids. (17 words)
Example sentences (3)
Al-Andalus was a safe haven for the house of Umayya that managed to evade the Abbasids.
In the meantime, a call went out through the Muslim world that al-Andalus was a safe haven for friends of the house of Umayya, if not for Abd al-Rahman's scattered family that managed to evade the Abbasids.
The Abbasids claimed to be the true successors of Prophet Muhammad in replacing the Umayyad descendants of Banu Umayya by virtue of their closer bloodline to Muhammad.
Common combinations with umayya
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of umayya 2×