ʿAwf
عوف
Say it OWF
Luck, good fortune
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-w-f
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Awf, Auf, Ouf
Meaning & source
Luck and good fortune; Lisān also lists al-ʿawf among the names of the lion, which prowls by night.
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أَي نعمَ بَخْتُك وجَدُّك، وَقِيلَ: بالُك وشأْنُك.
Who carried this name
- ʿAwf ibn Mālik al-Ashjaʿī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 6116 (vol. 4, p. 617)