Ḥudhayfah
حذيفة
Say it hu-DHAY-fah
From trimming at the edge
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-dh-f
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hudhaifa, Huzaifa, Huzayfa, Hudhayfah
Meaning & source
From ḥ-dh-f, to trim or cut off at the edge. Lisān records Ḥudhayfah as a man’s name without a separate gloss.
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وحُذَيْفَةُ: اسْمُ رَجُلٍ.
Who carried this name
- Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1652 (vol. 2, p. 39)