Nabhān
نبهان
Say it nab-HAAN
Becoming aware
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- n-b-h
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Nabhan, Nebhan
Meaning & source
From n-b-h, becoming aware of a thing after forgetting it (Lisān), which names Nabhān as the father of a clan of Ṭayyiʾ.
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أَبو زَيْدٍ: نَبِهْتُ للأَمر، بِالْكَسْرِ، أَنْبَهُ نَبَهاً ووَبِهْتُ أَوْبَهُ وبَهاً، وَهُوَ الأَمر تَنْسَاهُ ثُمَّ تتنَبَّهُ لَهُ.
Who carried this name
- Nabhān the date-seller Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 8698 (vol. 6, p. 329)