Ghufayrah
غفيرة
Say it ghu-FAY-rah
From forgiveness
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- gh-f-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ghufaira, Ghufayra, Ghufairah
Meaning & source
From ghafr, forgiving: Lisān gives ghafīrah among the nouns of forgiveness; Ghufayrah is a diminutive of the root.
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الأَخيرة عَنِ اللِّحْيَانِيِّ، وغَفيراً وغَفيرةً.
Who carried this name
- Ghufayrah bint Rabāḥ, sister of Bilāl the muʾadhdhin Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11563 (vol. 8, p. 255)