Samʿān
سمعان
Say it sam-AAN
Hearing; good repute
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-m-ʿ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Saman, Sam’an, Semaan
Meaning & source
From samʿ, hearing; Ibn Fāris adds that samʿ is also a good name among people.
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والسَّمع: الذُكْر الجميل.
Who carried this name
- Samʿān ibn Khālid al-Kilābī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3495 (vol. 3, p. 153)