Zinnīrah
زنّيرة
Say it zin-NEE-rah
Name of the Companion Zinnīrah al-Rūmiyyah
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- z-n-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Zinnira, Zinneera, Zinnirah
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Lisān al-ʿArab gives zunnayrah, a small pebble that rings in the wind, as the singular of zanānīr; that is a different vocalisation from Zinnīrah, and we found no gloss for Zinnīrah itself, so we leave the meaning blank.
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وَاحِدَتُهَا زُنَّيْرَةٌ وزُنَّارَة
Who carried this name
- Zinnīrah al-Rūmiyyah, persecuted for Islam in Makkah and freed by Abū Bakr Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11222 (vol. 8, p. 150)