Iyās
إياس
Say it i-YAAS
A gift in return
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʾ-w-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Iyas, Eyas
Meaning & source
Something given in return, a gift. Lisān: “Iyās, a man’s name, is from it.”
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والإِياسُ: العِوَضُ.
Who carried this name
- Iyās ibn al-Bukayr Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 373 (vol. 1, p. 309)
- Iyās ibn Muʿāwiyah, the judge of Basra al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 56 (vol. 5, p. 155)