Ḥawlāʾ
حولاء
Say it ḥaw-LAA
Honoured as the name of al-Ḥawlāʾ bint Tuwayt al-Asadiyyah, of Quraysh
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ḥ-w-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hawla, Hawlaa, Al-Hawla
What the word means
From a root that, Ibn Fāris says, means turning about in a cycle (the ḥawl is the year that comes round); Lisān gives al-ḥawlāʾ as the membrane in which a camel foal is born.
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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[حول] الحاء والواو واللام أصلٌ واحد، وهو تحرُّكٌ فى دَوْرٍ.
Who carried this name
- al-Ḥawlāʾ bint Tuwayt al-Asadiyyah, of Quraysh Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11072 (vol. 8, p. 93)