Muʿāwiyah
معاوية
Say it mu-AA-wi-yah
Honoured as the name of Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-w-y
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Muawiya, Muawiyah, Muaviye
What the word means
Lisān derives the name from ʿawā, “to howl”: al-muʿāwiyah is a she-dog that howls to the pack, “and Muʿāwiyah, the name, is from it”.
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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ومُعاوِيَةُ: اسْمٌ، وَهُوَ مِنْهُ، وَتَصْغِيرُ مُعَاوِيَة مُعَيَّة؛
Who carried this name
- Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 8087 (vol. 6, p. 120)