Zubayr
زبير
Say it zu-BAYR
Firm and solid
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- z-b-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Zubair, Zubayr, Zubeir
Meaning & source
From z-b-r: making something firm and solid, as a well is lined with stone.
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فالأوّل قولهم زَبَرْت البِئر، إذا طويتَها بالحجارة.
Who carried this name
- al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, the Prophet’s disciple Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2796 (vol. 2, p. 457)