Jaʿdah
جعدة
Say it JAʿ-dah
With curly hair
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- j-ʿ-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Jada, Ja'da, Jadah
Meaning & source
Curly-haired: jaʿd is curled hair, and the feminine is jaʿdah.
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وَرَجُلٌ جَعْدُ الشَّعْرَ: مِنَ الْجُعُودَةِ، والأُنثى جعْدة
Who carried this name
- Jaʿdah bint ʿUbayd of Banū al-Najjār, whose house the Prophet ﷺ used to visit Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10977 (vol. 8, p. 63)