Unays
أنيس
Say it u-NAYS
Friendly company
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʾ-n-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Unais, Onais, Unays
Meaning & source
A diminutive of anas: familiarity and friendly company, the opposite of wildness (Ibn Fāris).
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[أنس] الهمزة والنون والسين أصلٌ واحد، وهو ظهورُ الشئ، وكلُّ شئٍ خالَفَ طريقة التوحُّش.
Who carried this name
- Unays ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Aslamī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 290 (vol. 1, p. 285)