Kaysān
كيسان
Say it kay-SAAN
Good sense
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- k-y-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Kaysan, Keysan, Kaisan
Meaning & source
From kays, good sense and cleverness: Lisān lists Kaysān as a name with al-Kays. It adds, from Ibn al-Aʿrābī, that kaysān is also a word for treachery.
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والكَيِّسُ: اسْمُ رَجُلٍ، وَكَذَلِكَ كَيْسان.
Who carried this name
- Kaysān, a freedman of the Prophet ﷺ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 7488 (vol. 5, p. 471)