Khulaysah
خليسة
Say it khu-LAY-sah
Honoured as the name of Khulaysah bint Qays al-Ashjaʿiyyah
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- kh-l-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Khulaisa, Khulaysa
What the word means
From a root that, Ibn Fāris says, means snatching away, and also a flash of light.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
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[خلس] الخاء واللام والسنين أصلٌ واحد، وهو الاختطاف والالتماع.
Who carried this name
- Khulaysah bint Qays al-Ashjaʿiyyah, wife of al-Barāʾ ibn Maʿrūr, who pledged allegiance and narrated Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11106 (vol. 8, p. 107)