Fahīm
فَهِيم
Say it fa-HEEM
Understanding, perceptive
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- f-h-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Faheem, Fahim
Meaning & source
Of understanding: one who has understood (fahima) is fahīm, as one who knows is ʿalīm (Tāj al-ʿArūs).
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وَقد فَهِمَ فَهْمًا، فَهُوَ: فَهِيمٌ، كَعَلِم فَهْوَ عَلِيمٌ
al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs, root f-h-m (vol. 33, p. 224)
Who carried this name
We have not recorded an early bearer of this name. The word is classical Arabic.