Buthaynah
بثينة
Say it bu-THAY-nah
Soft, fertile ground
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- b-th-n
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Buthaina, Bouthaina, Busaina
Meaning & source
The diminutive of buthnah, soft, fertile ground; Lisān: “Buthaynah was named by its diminutive”.
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وَبِهَا سُمِّيَتِ المرأَة بَثْنة، وَبِتَصْغِيرِهَا سُمِّيَتْ بُثَيْنة.
Who carried this name
- Buthaynah bint al-Nuʿmān al-Anṣāriyyah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10915 (vol. 8, p. 46)