Zāhid
زَاهِد
Say it ZAA-hid
Detached from worldly desire
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- z-h-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Zahid, Zahed
Meaning & source
Detached from the world: zuhd is “the opposite of desire and greed for this world”.
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زهد: الزُّهد والزَّهادة فِي الدُّنْيَا وَلَا يُقَالُ الزُّهد إِلَّا في الدين خَاصَّةً، والزُّهد: ضِدُّ الرَّغْبَةِ وَالْحِرْصِ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا، وَالزَّهَادَةُ فِي الأَشياء كُلِّهَا: ضِدُّ الرَّغْبَةِ
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.