Sulāf
سلاف
Say it su-LAAF
Going before, foremost
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- s-l-f
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sulaf, Sulaaf
Meaning & source
Going before: from a root that, Ibn Fāris says, means coming first and preceding.
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[سلف] السين واللام والفاء أصلٌ يدلُّ على تقدُّم وسبْق.
Who carried this name
- Sulāf al-Anṣāriyyah, mother of al-Barāʾ ibn Maʿrūr Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11306 (vol. 8, p. 181)