Ḥarmalah
حرملة
Say it HAR-ma-lah
A wild herb
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-r-m-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Harmala, Harmalah
Meaning & source
One plant of ḥarmal, a herb with seeds like sesame. Lisān: “Ḥarmalah, a man’s name, is from that.”
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مَبِيتاً، وَلَوْ أَمْسَى سَوامُهم دَثْرا وحَرمَلَة: اسْمُ رَجُلٍ، مِنْ ذَلِكَ؛
Who carried this name
- Ḥarmalah ibn Zayd al-Anṣārī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1669 (vol. 2, p. 44)