Yazīd
يزيد
Say it ya-ZEED
He increases
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- z-y-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Yazid, Yazeed, Yezid
Meaning & source
“He increases”: a name formed from the present tense of zāda, “to grow more”.
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وزَيْدٌ ويَزِيدُ: اسْمَانِ سَمَّوْهُ بِالْفِعْلِ الْمُسْتَقْبَلِ مُخَلًّى مِنَ الضَّمِيرِ كَيَشْكُرُ وَيَعْصُرُ، وأَما قَوْلُ ابْنِ مَيَّادَةَ: وَجَدْنَا الْوَلِيدَ بْنَ الْيَزِيدِ مُبَارَكًا، .
Who carried this name
- Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān, a commander in Syria Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 9285 (vol. 6, p. 516)