Kubayshah
كبيشة
Say it ku-BAY-shah
Honoured as the name of Kubayshah bint Maʿn ibn ʿĀṣim
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- k-b-sh
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Kubaisha, Kubaysha
What the word means
Lisān records Kubayshah as a woman’s name. It is the diminutive of Kabshah, which Ibn Jinnī calls a coined name and not the feminine of kabsh, “ram”.
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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وكُبَيْشة: اسْم
Who carried this name
- Kubayshah bint Maʿn ibn ʿĀṣim Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11681 (vol. 8, p. 296)