Ḥumayd
حُمَيْد
Say it hu-MAYD
Praise (diminutive form)
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-m-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Humaid, Humayd
Meaning & source
The diminutive of ḥamd, praise: ḥamd is “the opposite of blame”.
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حمد: الْحَمْدُ: نَقِيضُ الذَّمِّ
Who carried this name
- Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, the ḥadīth narrator of Basra al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (Muʾassasat al-Risālah ed.), vol. 6, p. 163 (entry 78)