Ḥamāmah
حمامة
Say it ḥa-MAA-mah
A dove
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-m-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hamama, Hamamah
Meaning & source
A dove (al-Azharī, in Lisān); Lisān also gives ḥamāmah as a beautiful woman.
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الحَمامة طَائِر
Who carried this name
- Ḥamāmah, mother of Bilāl, persecuted for her faith and freed by Abū Bakr Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11058 (vol. 8, p. 88)