Jārūd
جارود
Say it jaa-ROOD
Honoured as the name of al-Jārūd ibn al-Muʿallā al-ʿAbdī
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- j-r-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Jarud, Jarood
What the word means
From jard, stripping a thing bare. Lisān says the Companion al-Jārūd al-ʿAbdī got the name because a disease spread from his camels and wiped out his uncles’ herds.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
The literal sense is plain or unflattering; families choose this name because an honoured early Muslim bore it, not for its dictionary meaning.
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والجَرْدُ، مُخَفَّفٌ: أَخذُك الشيءَ عَنِ الشيءِ حَرْقاً وسَحْفاً، ولذلك سمي المشؤوم جَارُودًا، والجارودُ العَبْدِيُّ: رجلٌ مِنَ الصَّحَابَةِ وَاسْمُهُ بِشْرُ بنُ عَمْرٍو مِنْ عَبْدِ الْقَيْسِ، وَسُمِّيَ الجارودَ لأَنه فَرَّ بِإِبِلِه إِلى أَخواله مِنْ بَنِي شَيْبَانَ وبإِبله دَاءٌ، فَفَشَا ذَلِكَ الدَّاءُ فِي إِبل أَخواله فأَهلكها؛
Who carried this name
- al-Jārūd ibn al-Muʿallā al-ʿAbdī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 1044 (vol. 1, p. 552)