ʿAṭāʾ
عَطَاء
Say it a-TAA
A gift, something given
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-ṭ-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Ata, Atta, Ataa
Meaning & source
A gift: “ʿaṭāʾ is what is given, like ʿaṭiyyah”.
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العَطاءُ: (مَا} يُعْطَى {كالعَطِيَّةِ)
al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs, root ʿ-ṭ-w (vol. 39, p. 62)
Who carried this name
- ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, the jurist of Makkah al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (Muʾassasat al-Risālah ed.), vol. 5, p. 78 (entry 29)