Sāʾibah
سائبة
Say it SAA-i-bah
Honoured as the name of Sāʾibah
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- s-y-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Saiba, Saibah
What the word means
From a root that, Ibn Fāris says, means something flowing on and going its way; the sāʾibah was one set free to go where she would, and sayb is a gift.
Classical Arabic names often came from strong or striking things in the desert world; the name is loved for who carried it.
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[سيب] السين والياء والباء أصلٌ يدلُّ على استمرارِ شئٍ وذهابِه.
Who carried this name
- Sāʾibah, freedwoman of the Prophet ﷺ, who narrated from him on lost property Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11276 (vol. 8, p. 171)