ʿIkrimah
عكرمة
Say it IK-ri-mah
A female dove
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-k-r-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ikrima, Ikrimah, Ekrema
Meaning & source
A female dove; Lisān: “ʿIkrimah, a man’s name, is from it”.
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عكرم: عِكْرِمةُ، مَعْرِفَةٌ: الأُنْثى مِنَ الطَّيْرِ الَّذِي يُقَالُ لَهُ ساقُ حُرّ، وَقِيلَ: العِكْرِمةُ الحَمامةُ الأُنثى.
Who carried this name
- ʿIkrimah ibn Abī Jahl Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5654 (vol. 4, p. 443)