Khaythamah
خيثمة
Say it KHAY-tha-mah
A she-leopard
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- kh-th-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Khaithama, Khaythamah
Meaning & source
A she-leopard (Ibn al-Aʿrābī, quoted in Lisān).
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ابْنُ الأَعرابي: هُوَ الأَبرد للنَّمر، وَيُقَالُ لأُنثاه الخَيْثَمَة.
Who carried this name
- Khaythamah ibn al-Ḥārith al-Anṣārī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2313 (vol. 2, p. 295)