Kaʿb
كعب
Say it KAA-b
The ankle-bone
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- k-ʿ-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Kab, Ka’b, Kaab
Meaning & source
The ankle-bone; from a root meaning something that juts out and rises.
-
يدلُّ على نتوٍّ وارتفاعٍ في الشيء.
Who carried this name
- Kaʿb ibn Mālik, one of the three whose repentance was accepted Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 7448 (vol. 5, p. 456)