Asmāʾ
أسماء
Say it as-MAA
Its origin is disputed
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ʾ-s-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Asma, Asmaa, Esma
Meaning & source
Its origin is disputed. Ibn Barrī, quoted in Lisān, gives three views: a word whose hamzah is original, a form of wasmāʾ from wasāmah (beauty), or the plural of ism, “name”.
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قَالَ ابْنُ بَرِّيٍّ: وأَما أَسماءُ اسْمُ امرأَة فمختلَف فِيهَا، فَمِنْهُمْ مَن يَجْعَلُهَا فَعلاء وَالْهَمْزَةُ فِيهَا أَصْل، وَمِنْهُمْ مَن يجعلُها بَدلًا مِنْ وَاوٍ وأَصْلُها عِنْدَهُمْ وَسْماء، وَمِنْهُمْ مَن يَجْعَلُ هَمْزَتَهَا قَطْعًا زَائِدَةً وَيَجْعَلُهَا جمعَ اسْمٍ سُمِّيَتْ بِهِ المرأَة، قَالَ: وَيُقَوِّي هَذَا الْوَجْهَ قَوْلُهُمْ فِي تَصْغِيرِهَا سُمَيَّة، وَلَوْ كَانَتِ الْهَمْزَةُ فِيهَا أَصْلًا لَمْ تحذَف.
Who carried this name
- Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10798 (vol. 8, p. 11)
- Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10809 (vol. 8, p. 14)
- Asmāʾ bint Yazīd Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10816 (vol. 8, p. 21)