Minhāl
منهال
Say it min-HAAL
Utmost generosity
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- n-h-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Minhal, Minhaal
Meaning & source
Lisān gives several senses of al-minhāl, among them “the utmost in generosity”; the root is the first drink at a watering place.
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والمِنْهَال: الْغَايَةُ فِي السَّخَاءِ.
Who carried this name
- al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr of Kufa al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 64 (vol. 5, p. 184)