Ghālib
غالب
Say it GHAA-lib
One who prevails
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- gh-l-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ghalib, Galib, Ghaleb
Meaning & source
One who prevails: from a root meaning strength, mastery and force (Ibn Fāris).
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[غلب] الغين واللام والباء أصلٌ صحيح يدلُّ على قوّةٍ وقَهرٍ وشدَّة.
Who carried this name
- Ghālib ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Laythī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 6920 (vol. 5, p. 242)