Ḥurayth
حريث
Say it hu-RAYTH
Little earner
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ḥ-r-th
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Huraith, Hurayth
Meaning & source
A diminutive of ḥārith: ḥarth is earning and gathering, and Ibn Fāris says the name Ḥārith comes from it.
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فالأوّل الحَرْث، وهو الكَسْب والجمع، وبه سمِّى الرجل حارثاً.
Who carried this name
- Ḥurayth ibn Ḥassān al-Bakrī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1681 (vol. 2, p. 47)