Rāmī
رَامِي
Say it RAA-mee
One who shoots, an archer
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- r-m-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Rami, Ramy, Ramee
Meaning & source
One who shoots, an archer: Lisān, “he shot (ramā), he shoots, and he is a rāmī”; Tāj al-ʿArūs names a scholar known as al-Rāmī for shooting with the bow.
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رَمى يَرْمِي رَمْياً فَهُوَ رامٍ
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بالرَّامِي إِلَى الرَّمْي بالقَوْسِ تخرُجُ بِهِ جماعَة فِي الرَّمي، رَوَى عَنهُ أَبو سعيدٍ الإدْرِيسي توفّي سَنَة ٣٧٤
al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs, root r-m-y (vol. 38, p. 188)
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.