Usāmah
أسامة
Say it oo-SAA-mah
The lion
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʾ-s-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Usama, Osama, Usamah
Meaning & source
The lion: Lisān lists Usāmah among the names of the lion.
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أسم: أُسامَةُ: مِنْ أَسماء الأَسد، لَا يَنْصرِف.
Who carried this name
- Usāmah ibn Zayd, the Prophet’s beloved Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 89 (vol. 1, p. 202)