Rīm
ريم
Say it REEM
A pure white gazelle
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- r-ʾ-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Reem, Rim, Rheem
Meaning & source
The pure white gazelle: Tāj al-ʿArūs, “al-riʾm: the gazelle of pure whiteness”, which lives among the sands. Reem is how the name is usually spelled today.
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الرِّئِمُ (بالكَسْر: الظَّبيُ الخَالِص البَياضِ) يَسْكُن الرَّمل، نَقله الجَوْهَرِيّ عَن الأَصْمَعِيّ، ومِثلُه قَولُ أبي زَيْد
al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs, root r-ʾ-m (vol. 32, p. 211)
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.