Ḥukaymah
حكيمة
Say it ḥu-KAY-mah
Name of the Companion Ḥukaymah bint Ghaylān al-Thaqafiyyah
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Hukaima, Hukayma, Hukaimah
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Ḥukaymah is a diminutive from the root ḥ-k-m, the root of ḥikmah, wisdom, but we found no lexicon gloss for the name itself. Ibn Ḥajar spells it with the diminutive, so it is not Ḥakīmah.
Who carried this name
- Ḥukaymah bint Ghaylān al-Thaqafiyyah, wife of Yaʿlā ibn Murrah (Abū ʿUmar was unsure whether she heard the Prophet ﷺ) Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11055 (vol. 8, p. 87)