Maymūnah
ميمونة
Say it may-MOO-nah
Blessed, fortunate
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- y-m-n
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Maimuna, Maymunah, Meymune, Maimouna
Meaning & source
Blessed, fortunate: yumn is blessing, the opposite of ill omen.
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يَمُنُّ: اليُمْنُ: البَركةُ؛
Who carried this name
- Maymūnah bint al-Ḥārith, Mother of the Believers Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11783 (vol. 8, p. 322)