Buhaysah
بهيسة
Say it bu-HAY-sah
From boldness
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- b-h-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Buhaisa, Buhaysa
Meaning & source
Lisān records Buhaysah as a woman’s name; in this root bahs is boldness, and Bayhas is a name of the lion.
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وبُهَيْسَةُ: اسْمُ امرأَة؛
Who carried this name
- Buhaysah bint ʿĀmir al-Zuraqiyyah, who pledged allegiance Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10946 (vol. 8, p. 53)