Furayʿah
فريعة
Say it fu-RAY-ah
The top, a branch
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- f-r-ʿ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Furaya, Furay’ah, Fariah
Meaning & source
The diminutive of farʿ, the top or branch of anything.
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فرع: فَرْعُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ: أَعْلاه، وَالْجَمْعُ فُرُوعٌ، لَا يُكَسَّر عَلَى غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ.
Who carried this name
- Furayʿah bint Mālik, sister of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11627 (vol. 8, p. 280)