Suwayd
سويد
Say it su-WAYD
Little dark one
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-w-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Suwaid, Suwayd, Sowaid
Meaning & source
A diminutive of aswad, black. Lisān: “its shortened diminutive is Suwayd.”
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وتَصغير التَّرْخِيمِ سُوَيْدٌ.
Who carried this name
- Suwayd ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Anṣārī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3624 (vol. 3, p. 190)