Arqam
أرقم
Say it AR-qam
Honoured as the name of al-Arqam ibn Abī al-Arqam, in whose house the early Muslims met
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- r-q-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Arqam, Arkam
What the word means
A snake speckled black and white.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
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ابْنُ سِيدَهْ: الأَرْقَمُ مِنَ الْحَيَّاتِ الَّذِي فِيهِ سَوَادٌ وَبَيَاضٌ، وَالْجَمْعُ أَراقِمُ، غَلَبَ غَلَبَةَ الأَسماء فكُسِّرَ تَكْسِيرَهَا وَلَا يُوصَفُ بِهِ الْمُؤَنَّثُ، يُقَالُ لِلذَّكَرِ أَرْقَم، وَلَا يُقَالُ حَيَّةٌ رَقْماء، وَلَكِنْ رَقْشاء.
Who carried this name
- al-Arqam ibn Abī al-Arqam, in whose house the early Muslims met Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 73 (vol. 1, p. 196)