Zayd
زَيْد
Say it ZAYD
Increase, growth
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- z-y-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Qurʾān: 33:37
- Also spelled
- Zaid, Zayed, Zeid
Meaning & source
Increase, growth.
Zayd ibn Ḥārithah is the only Companion named in the Qurʾān (al-Itqān).
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الزِّيدُ: الزِّيَادَةُ
Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, root z-y-d, vol. 3, p. 198 (Dār Ṣādir, Beirut, 3rd ed. 1414 AH)
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وَفِيهِ مِنْ أَسْمَاءِ الصَّحَابَةِ زَيْدُ بْنُ حَارِثَةَ
Who carried this name
- Zayd ibn Ḥārithah, the Prophet’s ﷺ freed slave and once his adopted son Qurʾān 33:37