Ḥaydar
حَيْدَر
Say it HAY-dar
The lion
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-d-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Haidar, Haider, Haydar
Meaning & source
The lion. Ibn al-Aʿrābī: “ḥaydarah among lions is like a king among men”. Lisān records Ḥaydar and Ḥaydarah as names.
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والحَيْدَرَةُ: الأَسد
Who carried this name
- ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, who said at Khaybar, “I am the one my mother named Ḥaydarah” Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1807a