Diḥyah
دحية
Say it DIH-yah
Commander of a troop
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- d-ḥ-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Dihya, Dahiya, Dihyah
Meaning & source
The commander of a troop; Lisān says Diḥyah al-Kalbī was named from it.
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قَالَ: والدِّحْيَة رَئِيسُ الجُنْدِ، وَبِهِ سُمِّيَ دِحْيَةُ الكَلْبِيّ.
Who carried this name
- Diḥyah ibn Khalīfah al-Kalbī, the Prophet’s envoy to Heraclius Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2395 (vol. 2, p. 321)