Shuʿbah
شعبة
Say it SHU-bah
A branch
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- sh-ʿ-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Shuba, Shu’bah, Shubah
Meaning & source
A branch: the shuʿbah of a tree is one of its spreading boughs (Lisān).
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والشُّعْبة مِنَ الشَّجَرِ: مَا تَفَرَّقَ مِنْ أَغصانها؛
Who carried this name
- Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj of Basra al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 80 (vol. 7, p. 202)