ʿAffān
عفان
Say it af-FAAN
Chaste, restrained
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-f-f
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Affan, Afan
Meaning & source
From ʿiffah, holding back from what is not fitting (Ibn Fāris).
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فالأول: العِفّة: الكفُّ عمّا لا ينبغى.
Who carried this name
- ʿAffān ibn Ḥabīb Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5599 (vol. 4, p. 424)
- ʿAffān ibn Muslim of Basra al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 65 (vol. 10, p. 242)