Ḥafṣah
حفصة
Say it HAF-sah
Honoured as the name of Ḥafṣah bint ʿUmar, Mother of the Believers
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-f-ṣ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hafsa, Hafsah, Hafza
What the word means
Lisān records ḥafṣah as a name for the vulture; al-Khalīl’s al-ʿAyn, quoted there, calls the lion’s cub ḥafṣ.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
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وحَفْصةُ وأُم حَفْصةَ، جَمِيعًا: الرَّخَمةُ.
Who carried this name
- Ḥafṣah bint ʿUmar, Mother of the Believers Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11053 (vol. 8, p. 85)