ʿAlqamah
علقمة
Say it AL-qa-mah
A bitter gourd
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-l-q-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Alqama, Alqamah, Alkama
Meaning & source
A piece of the colocynth, the bitter desert gourd; Lisān adds that anything very bitter is called ʿalqam.
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علقم: العَلْقَمُ: شَجَرُ الحَنْظَل، وَالْقِطْعَةُ مِنْهُ عَلْقَمَةٌ، وكُلُّ مُرّ عَلْقَمٌ، وَقِيلَ: هُوَ الْحَنْظَلُ بِعَيْنِهِ أَعني ثَمَرَتَهُ، الْوَاحِدَةُ مِنْهَا عَلْقَمَةٌ.
Who carried this name
- ʿAlqamah ibn ʿUlāthah al-ʿĀmirī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5691 (vol. 4, p. 455)
- ʿAlqamah ibn Qays al-Nakhaʿī, student of Ibn Masʿūd al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 14 (vol. 4, p. 53)