ʿIṣmah
عصمة
Say it ʿIṢ-mah
Protection, safekeeping
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ʿ-ṣ-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ismat, Isma, Ismah
Meaning & source
Protection: God’s ʿiṣmah of His servant is His guarding him from what would ruin him; at root the word means holding back (Lisān).
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وعِصْمةُ اللَّهِ عَبْدَه: أَنْ يَعْصِمَه مِمَّا يُوبِقُه.
Who carried this name
- ʿIṣmah bint Ḥibbān al-Anṣāriyyah, who pledged allegiance Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11482 (vol. 8, p. 240)