Anas
أنس
Say it AH-nas
Friendly company
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʾ-n-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Anas, Enes
Meaning & source
Familiarity and friendly company, the opposite of wildness.
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[أنس] الهمزة والنون والسين أصلٌ واحد، وهو ظهورُ الشئ، وكلُّ شئٍ خالَفَ طريقة التوحُّش.
Who carried this name
- Anas ibn Mālik, who served the Prophet Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 277 (vol. 1, p. 275)
- Anas ibn al-Naḍr, martyred at Uḥud Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 283 (vol. 1, p. 281)