ʿAttāb
عتّاب
Say it at-TAAB
A threshold
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-t-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Attab, Atab
Meaning & source
From ʿ-t-b; the ʿatabah is the threshold of a door (Lisān).
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عتب: العَتَبَةُ: أُسْكُفَّةُ البابِ الَّتِي تُوطأُ؛
Who carried this name
- ʿAttāb ibn Asīd, governor of Makkah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5407 (vol. 4, p. 356)