Ṣukhayrah
صخيرة
Say it ṣu-KHAY-rah
A little rock
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ṣ-kh-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Sukhaira, Sukhayra
Meaning & source
The diminutive of ṣakhrah, a great, solid rock.
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الصَّخرة: الْحَجَرُ الْعَظِيمُ الصُّلْب
Who carried this name
- Ṣukhayrah bint Jayfar of Basra, who visited Ṣafiyyah bint Ḥuyayy and narrated from her Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, no. 4670 (vol. 8, p. 351)