Ḍaḥḥāk
ضحاك
Say it dah-HAAK
Quick to laugh
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḍ-ḥ-k
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Dahhak, Dahak, Zahhak
Meaning & source
Quick to laugh. Ibn al-Aʿrābī (in Lisān): “al-ḍaḥḥāk is praise.”
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قَالَ ابْنُ الأَعرابي: الضَّاحِك مِنَ السَّحَابِ مِثْلُ العارِضِ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ إِذَا بَرَق قِيلَ ضَحِك، والضَّحَّاك مَدْح، والضُّحَكَة دَمٌّ، والضُّحْكَة أَذَمُّ، وَقَدْ أَضْحكني الأَمرُ وَهُمْ يَتَضاحكون، وَقَالُوا: ضَحِكَ الزَّهْرُ عَلَى المَثَل لأَن الزَّهْر لَا يَضْحَك حَقِيقَةً.
Who carried this name
- al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Sufyān al-Kilābī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 4185 (vol. 3, p. 385)
- al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Qays al-Fihrī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 4189 (vol. 3, p. 387)