Ṭalḥah
طلحة
Say it TAL-hah
An acacia tree
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ṭ-l-ḥ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Talha, Talhah
Meaning & source
One tree of the ṭalḥ, a large thorny acacia; Lisān says the man’s name comes from it.
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وَاحِدَتُهُ طَلْحَة، وَبِهَا سُمِّيَ الرَّجُلُ؛
Who carried this name
- Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbaydillāh, one of the ten promised Paradise Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 4285 (vol. 3, p. 430)