Nasīkah
نسيكة
Say it na-SEE-kah
From worship and sacrifice
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- n-s-k
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Nasika, Naseeka, Nasikah
Meaning & source
From a root that, Ibn Fāris says, means worship and drawing near to God; the nasīkah is the animal offered to Him in sacrifice.
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[نسك] النون والسين والكاف أصلٌ صحيح يدلُّ على عِبادةٍ وتقرُّب إلى اللّه تعالى.
Who carried this name
- Nasīkah, mother of ʿAmr ibn al-Julās Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11816 (vol. 8, p. 335)