ʿUtbah
عتبة
Say it UT-bah
A threshold
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-t-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Utba, Otba, Utbah
Meaning & source
From ʿ-t-b; the ʿatabah is the threshold of a door. Lisān lists ʿUtbah among the names of this root.
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وعَتَّابٌ وعِتْبانٌ ومُعَتِّبٌ وعُتْبة وعُتَيْبةُ: كلُّها أَسماءٌ.
Who carried this name
- ʿUtbah ibn Ghazwān, founder of Basra Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5427 (vol. 4, p. 363)