Ḥafṣ
حفص
Say it HAFS
A lion cub
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-f-ṣ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hafs, Hafz
Meaning & source
A lion cub (Lisān).
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والحَفْصُ: الشِّبْلُ.
Who carried this name
- Ḥafṣ ibn al-Sāʾib Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1769 (vol. 2, p. 85)
- Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, judge of Kufa al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 6 (vol. 9, p. 22)