Hammām
همام
Say it ham-MAAM
Full of resolve
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- h-m-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hammam, Hamam
Meaning & source
From hamm, what one sets one’s mind to: Ibn Fāris says al-hamm is what you resolve on.
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والهَمُّ: ما هَمَمْتَ به، وكذلك الهِمَّة، ثم تشتقُّ من الهِمَّة: الهُمام: الملكُ العظيم الهِمّة.
Who carried this name
- Hammām ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Ḍamrah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 9014 (vol. 6, p. 433)
- Hammām ibn Munabbih, who wrote down Abū Hurayrah’s ḥadīth al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 148 (vol. 5, p. 311)