Asmar
أسمر
Say it AS-mar
Brown in colour
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-m-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Asmar, Esmer
Meaning & source
Brown: sumrah is a colour between white and black (Lisān).
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سمر: السُّمْرَةُ: مَنْزِلَةٌ بَيْنَ الْبَيَاضِ وَالسَّوَادِ، يَكُونُ ذَلِكَ فِي أَلوان النَّاسِ والإِبل وَغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ مِمَّا يَقْبَلُهَا إِلَّا أَن الأُدْمَةَ فِي الإِبل أَكثر، وَحَكَى ابْنُ الأَعرابي السُّمْرَةَ فِي الْمَاءِ.
Who carried this name
- Asmar ibn Muḍarris al-Ṭāʾī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 145 (vol. 1, p. 220)