Aswad
أسود
Say it AS-wad
Black in colour
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-w-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Aswad, Al-Aswad
Meaning & source
Black: the colour opposite to white (Ibn Fāris).
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[سود] السين والواو والدال أصلٌ واحد، وهو خلاف البياضِ فى اللون، ثم يحمل عليه ويشتقّ منه.
Who carried this name
- al-Aswad ibn Sarīʿ al-Tamīmī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 161 (vol. 1, p. 226)