Suhayl
سهيل
Say it su-HAYL
The star Canopus
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-h-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Suhail, Sohail, Suheil
Meaning & source
The star Canopus, seen low in the southern sky.
-
وسُهَيْلٌ: كوكبٌ يَمانٍ.
Who carried this name
- Suhayl ibn ʿAmr, who accepted Islam at the conquest of Makkah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3585 (vol. 3, p. 177)