Ashʿath
أشعث
Say it ASH-ath
Dusty, unkempt hair
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- sh-ʿ-th
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ashath, Ash’ath, Ashas
Meaning & source
Dishevelled: al-shaʿith is one whose head is dusty and hair unkempt and unoiled (Lisān).
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والشَّعِثُ: المُغْبرُّ الرأْسِ، المُنْتَتِفُ الشَّعَرِ، الحافُّ الَّذِي لَمْ يَدَّهِنْ.
Who carried this name
- al-Ashʿath ibn Qays al-Kindī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 205 (vol. 1, p. 239)