Ḥalīmah
حليمة
Say it ha-LEE-mah
Forbearing, gentle
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-l-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Halima, Halimah, Haleema
Meaning & source
Forbearing, gentle: ḥilm is the opposite of rashness.
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فالأوّل: الْحِلم خلاف الطَّيش.
Who carried this name
- Ḥalīmah al-Saʿdiyyah, the Prophet’s wet-nurse Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11056 (vol. 8, p. 87)