Ḥayyān
حيان
Say it hay-YAAN
Life, not death
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-y-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hayyan, Hayan
Meaning & source
From ḥayāh, life, the opposite of death (Ibn Fāris).
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[حي] الحاء والياء والحرف المعتل أصلان: أحدهما خِلاف المَوْت، والآخر الاستحياء الذى
Who carried this name
- Ḥayyān ibn Buḥḥ al-Ṣudāʾī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1889 (vol. 2, p. 126)