Sayyār
سيّار
Say it say-YAAR
Going on, journeying
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-y-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sayyar, Sayar, Seyyar
Meaning & source
From sayr, going on and moving along (Ibn Fāris).
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[سير] السين والياء والراء أصلٌ يدلُّ على مضىٍّ وجَرَيان يقال سار يسير سيراً، وذلك يكونُ ليلاً ونهاراً.
Who carried this name
- Sayyār ibn Rawḥ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3638 (vol. 3, p. 194)
- Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam of Wāsiṭ al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 179 (vol. 5, p. 391)