ʿArfajah
عرفجة
Say it AR-fa-jah
A desert shrub
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-r-f-j
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Arfaja, Arfajah
Meaning & source
One plant of ʿarfaj, a soft desert shrub; Lisān: “and from it the man is named”.
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عرفج: العَرْفَج والعِرْفج: نَبْتٌ، وَقِيلَ: هُوَ ضَرْبٌ مِنَ النَّبَاتِ سُهْلِيٌّ سَرِيعُ الِانْقِيَادِ، وَاحِدَتُهُ عَرْفَجَة، وَمِنْهُ سُمِّيَ الرَّجُلُ؛
Who carried this name
- ʿArfajah ibn Asʿad al-Saʿdī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5522 (vol. 4, p. 400)
- ʿArfajah ibn Harthamah al-Bāriqī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5525 (vol. 4, p. 401)