Qatādah
قتادة
Say it qa-TAA-dah
A thorny shrub
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- q-t-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Qatada, Katade, Qatadah
Meaning & source
One bush of the qatād, a hard thorny shrub of Najd and Tihāmah.
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قتد: القَتادُ: شَجَرٌ شاكٍ صُلْب لَهُ سِنْفَة وجَنَاةٌ كَجَناة السَّمُر ينبُتُ بِنَجْد وتِهامَةَ، وَاحِدَتُهُ قَتادة.
Who carried this name
- Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 7091 (vol. 5, p. 317)