Anīsah
أَنيسَة
Say it a-NEE-sah
Friendly, good company
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ʾ-n-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Anisa, Aneesa, Anisah
Meaning & source
Companionable, friendly: al-anīs is a friendly companion. Ibn al-Aʿrābī says al-anīsah is fire, because a person who finds it at night is comforted by it.
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الأَنيس: المُؤانِس
al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs, root ʾ-n-s (vol. 15, p. 413)
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.