Murārah
مرارة
Say it mu-RAA-rah
Honoured as the name of Murārah ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Anṣārī
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- m-r-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Murara, Murarah
What the word means
Bitterness: Ibn Fāris gives the second sense of m-r-r as the opposite of sweetness and pleasantness.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
The literal sense is plain or unflattering; families choose this name because an honoured early Muslim bore it, not for its dictionary meaning.
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[مر] الميم والراء أصلانِ صحيحان، يدلُّ أحدهما على مضىِّ شيءِ، والآخر على خلاف الحلاوة والطِّيب.
Who carried this name
- Murārah ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Anṣārī, one of the three who stayed behind from Tabūk Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 7882 (vol. 6, p. 52)