Bakr
بكر
Say it BAKR
A young camel
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- b-k-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Bakr, Bakir, Bekir
Meaning & source
A young camel: Lisān says al-bakr is the young camel, as a boy is among people.
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البَكر، بِالْفَتْحِ: الفَتِيُّ مِنَ الإِبل بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْغُلَامِ مِنَ النَّاسِ، والأُنثى بَكْرَةٌ، وَقَدْ يُسْتَعَارُ لِلنَّاسِ؛
Who carried this name
- Bakr ibn al-Shaddākh al-Laythī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 728 (vol. 1, p. 453)
- Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī of Basra al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 215 (vol. 4, p. 532)