Kinānah
كنانة
Say it ki-NAA-nah
A quiver
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- k-n-n
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Kinana, Kenana
Meaning & source
A quiver for arrows (Lisān).
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والكِنانة: جَعْبة السِّهام تُتَّخذُ مِنْ جُلود لَا خَشب فِيهَا أَو مِنْ خَشَبٍ لَا جُلُودَ فِيهَا.
Who carried this name
- Kinānah ibn ʿAbd Yālīl al-Thaqafī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 7478 (vol. 5, p. 467)