Naḍr
نضر
Say it NADR
Radiant beauty
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- n-ḍ-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Nadr, Nadhr, Nazr
Meaning & source
Radiance: Ibn Fāris gives n-ḍ-r as beauty, loveliness and purity; naḍrah is a fine, fresh colour.
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[نضر] النون والضاد والراء أصلٌ صحيح يدلُّ على حُسنٍ وجمالٍ وخُلوص.
Who carried this name
- al-Naḍr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAlqamah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 8732 (vol. 6, p. 338)
- al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl, the grammarian of Basra and Marw al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 108 (vol. 9, p. 328)