Salamah
سلمة
Say it SA-la-mah
Soundness and safety
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-l-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Salama, Salamah, Seleme
Meaning & source
A stone (Ibn Fāris); from the root of soundness and safety.
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والسَّلمَة: الحجر، فيه يقول الشاعر: ذاكَ خليلى وذو يعاتِبُنى
Who carried this name
- Salamah ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Akwaʿ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3401 (vol. 3, p. 127)