Ṭāhirah
طاهرة
Say it TAA-hi-rah
Pure
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ṭ-h-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Tahira, Tahirah, Taheera
Meaning & source
Pure: clean of impurity and of faults.
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والطُّهْر: نَقِيضُ الْحَيْضِ، والمرأَة طاهِرٌ مِنَ الْحَيْضِ وطاهِرةٌ مِنَ النَّجَاسَةِ وَمِنَ العُيوبِ، ورجلٌ طاهِرٌ وَرِجَالٌ طاهِرُون ونساءٌ طاهِراتٌ.
Who carried this name
- al-Ṭāhirah bint Khuwaylid, sister of Khadījah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11437 (vol. 8, p. 224)