Tumāḍir
تماضر
Say it tu-MAA-ḍir
Fresh and tender
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- m-ḍ-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Tumadir, Tumadhir, Tumaadir
Meaning & source
Lisān says the name comes from maḍr, things fresh and tender (as in “fresh and tender”, and “may God make the praise sweet for you”); Ibn Durayd thought it came from milk that has turned pleasantly sour.
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وتُماضِرُ: اسْمُ امرأَة، مُشْتَقٌّ مِنْ هَذِهِ الأَشياء؛
Who carried this name
- Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr, the poet known as al-Khansāʾ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10958 (vol. 8, p. 57)
- Tumāḍir bint al-Aṣbagh al-Kalbiyyah, wife of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10957 (vol. 8, p. 56)