Ḥassānah
حسانة
Say it ḥas-SAA-nah
A beautiful woman
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-s-n
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hassana, Hassanah
Meaning & source
Beautiful: Ibn Fāris gives ḥasnāʾ and ḥussānah for a beautiful woman, from ḥusn, the opposite of ugliness.
Ibn Ḥajar reports from Abū ʿUmar that her name had been Jaththāmah.
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فالْحُسن ضِدُّ القبح يقال رجلٌ حسن وامْرَأة حسناءُ وحُسّانَةٌ.
Who carried this name
- Ḥassānah al-Muzaniyyah, an elderly woman the Prophet ﷺ welcomed warmly Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11049 (vol. 8, p. 84)