Rufaydah
رفيدة
Say it ru-FAY-dah
Help and support
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- r-f-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Rufaida, Rufaydah, Rufeyde
Meaning & source
From rifd, help and support given to someone; Rufaydah is a diminutive.
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[رفد] الراء والفاء والدال أصلٌ واحدٌ مطّرد منقاس، وهو المعاوَنة والمظاهَرة بالعَطاء وغيره.
Who carried this name
- Rufaydah, who tended the wounded in her tent by the Prophet’s mosque Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11181 (vol. 8, p. 135)