Jarīr
جرير
Say it ja-REER
A camel’s rope halter
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- j-r-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Jarir, Jareer, Cerir
Meaning & source
A rope halter for a camel; Lisān: “and from it a man is named Jarīr”.
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الْجَوْهَرِيُّ: الجَرِيرُ حَبْلٌ يُجْعَلُ لِلْبَعِيرِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ العِذَارِ لِلدَّابَّةِ غَيْرُ الزِّمام، وَبِهِ سُمِّيَ الرَّجُلُ جَرِيراً.
Who carried this name
- Jarīr ibn ʿAbdillāh al-Bajalī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1139 (vol. 1, p. 581)