ʿAlī
علي
Say it AH-lee
High, exalted
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-l-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ali, Aly
Meaning & source
High, exalted: from a root meaning height and rising.
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[علو] العين واللام والحرف المعتل ياءً كان أو واواً أو ألفاً، أصلٌ واحد يدلُّ على السموّ والارتفاع، لا يشذُّ عنه شئ.
Who carried this name
- ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the fourth caliph Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5704 (vol. 4, p. 464)