Shumaylah
شميلة
Say it shu-MAY-lah
A small wrapping cloak
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- sh-m-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Shumaila, Shumayla, Shumailah
Meaning & source
The diminutive of shamlah, a cloak one wraps about oneself.
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الْمُحْكَمُ: والشَّمْلة كِساءٌ دُونَ القَطِيفة يُشْتَمل بِهِ، وَجَمْعُهَا شِمَالٌ؛
Who carried this name
- Shumaylah bint al-Ḥārith al-Ẓafariyyah, who pledged allegiance Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11389 (vol. 8, p. 205)