Zughaybah
زغيبة
Say it zu-GHAY-bah
Soft down
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- z-gh-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Zughaiba, Zughayba
Meaning & source
A diminutive of zaghab, the fine, soft down of a young bird.
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وَقِيلَ: هُوَ صِغارُ الشَّعَر والرِّيشِ ولَيِّنه؛
Who carried this name
- Zughaybah bint Zurārah, sister of Asʿad ibn Zurārah, who pledged allegiance Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11221 (vol. 8, p. 150)