Ghaylān
غيلان
Say it ghay-LAAN
Dense thicket
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- gh-y-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ghaylan, Ghailan, Gaylan
Meaning & source
From ghayl, a thicket of dense, tangled trees (Ibn Fāris).
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فالأوَّل الغِيل: الشجر المجتمِع الملتفّ.
Who carried this name
- Ghaylān ibn Salamah al-Thaqafī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 6940 (vol. 5, p. 253)