Sarrāʾ
سرّا
Say it sar-RAA
Ease and gladness
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- s-r-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sarra, Sarraa
Meaning & source
Ease and prosperity, the opposite of hardship; Lisān adds that sarrāʾ, like surūr, is gladness.
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والسَّرَّاءُ: الرَّخاء، وَهُوَ نَقِيضُ الضَّرَّاءِ.
Who carried this name
- Sarrāʾ bint Nabhān al-Ghanawiyyah, whose ḥadīth Abū Dāwūd narrates Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11291 (vol. 8, p. 175)