Firās
فراس
Say it fi-RAAS
The lion’s pounce
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- f-r-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Firas, Feras, Firass
Meaning & source
From f-r-s, the lion’s seizing of its prey: Ibn Fāris notes that the lion is called Abū Firās.
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وأبو فِراسٍ: الأسد.
Who carried this name
- Firās ibn al-Naḍr ibn al-Ḥārith Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 6984 (vol. 5, p. 275)