ʿUthmān
عثمان
Say it ooth-MAAN
A young desert bird
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-th-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Uthman, Othman, Osman, Usman
Meaning & source
Lisān al-ʿArab gives al-ʿuthmān as the young of the bustard, a large desert bird; Abū ʿAmr says it is the young of a snake.
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والعُثْمان فَرْخ الحُبارى.
Who carried this name
- ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, the third caliph Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5464 (vol. 4, p. 377)
- ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn, an early emigrant Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5469 (vol. 4, p. 381)