Ḥanẓalah
حنظلة
Say it HAN-za-lah
A bitter desert gourd
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-n-ẓ-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hanzala, Hanzalah, Handhala
Meaning & source
From ḥanẓal, the colocynth, a bitter desert gourd; Lisān records Ḥanẓalah as a man’s name.
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وحَنْظَلة: اسْمُ رَجُلٍ.
Who carried this name
- Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī ʿĀmir, washed by the angels Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1868 (vol. 2, p. 119)
- Ḥanẓalah ibn al-Rabīʿ, a scribe of the Prophet Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1864 (vol. 2, p. 117)