Qaʿqāʿ
قعقاع
Say it qa-QAA
A clattering sound
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- q-ʿ-ʿ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Qaqa, Qa’qa’, Kaka
Meaning & source
A clatter: Lisān says qaʿqaʿtuhu is to shake a thing so it rattles, and the noun is al-qaʿqāʿ.
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وقَعْقَعْتُه قَعْقَعةً وقِعْقاعاً: حَرَّكْتُهُ، وَالِاسْمُ القَعْقاعُ، بِالْفَتْحِ.
Who carried this name
- al-Qaʿqāʿ ibn Abī Ḥadrad al-Aslamī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 7141 (vol. 5, p. 342)