Qurrat al-ʿAyn
قرة العين
Say it QUR-rat al-ʿAYN
Delight of the eye
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- q-r-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Qurratulain, Qurratul Ain, Qurrat ul Ain
Meaning & source
Delight of the eye. Ibn Fāris links “may God cool his eye” to the root of coolness: some say tears of joy are cool and tears of grief hot.
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وقولهم: أقَرَّ اللّهُ عينَه
Who carried this name
- Qurrat al-ʿAyn bint ʿUbādah al-Anṣāriyyah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11648 (vol. 8, p. 286)