ʿAwwām
عوام
Say it aw-WAAM
A swift horse
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-w-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Awwam, Awam
Meaning & source
A horse that seems to swim as it runs (Lisān).
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فتَسْتَبِيحُ ماءَهُ فتَلْهَمُه، حَتى يَعُودَ دَحَضاً تَشَمَّمُه والعَوّام، بِالتَّشْدِيدِ: الْفَرَسُ السَّابِحُ فِي جَرْيه.
Who carried this name
- al-ʿAwwām ibn Juhayl Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 6099 (vol. 4, p. 612)