Jaʿfar
جعفر
Say it JA-far
A stream
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- j-ʿ-f-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Jafar, Jaafar, Ja’far
Meaning & source
A stream or river; Lisān adds that the man’s name is taken from it.
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جَعْفَرَ: الجَعْفَرُ: النَّهْرُ عامَّةً؛
Who carried this name
- Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib, who led the emigrants to Abyssinia Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1169 (vol. 1, p. 592)