Judāmah
جدامة
Say it ju-DAA-mah
Honoured as the name of Judāmah bint Wahb al-Asadiyyah
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- j-d-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Judama, Judamah, Judhama
What the word means
From a root that, Ibn Fāris says, means smallness and shortness.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
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[جدم] الجيم والدال والميم يدلّ على القماءة والقِصَر.
Who carried this name
- Judāmah bint Wahb al-Asadiyyah, who narrated the ḥadīth on nursing mothers (al-Muwaṭṭaʾ) Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10975 (vol. 8, p. 62)
- Judāmah bint Jandal, among the early emigrant women Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10973 (vol. 8, p. 62)