Qumayrah
قميرة
Say it qu-MAY-rah
A little moon
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- q-m-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Qumaira, Qumayra, Qumairah
Meaning & source
A little moon: Lisān gives qumayr as the diminutive of qamar, the moon.
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وَفِي كَلَامِ بَعْضِهِمْ قُمَيْرٌ، وَهُوَ تَصْغِيرُه
Who carried this name
- Qumayrah, wife of Masrūq, who narrated from ʿĀʾishah Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, no. 4709 (vol. 8, p. 357)