Sawād
سواد
Say it sa-WAAD
Blackness; the great body
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- s-w-d
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sawad, Sawaad
Meaning & source
Blackness, the opposite of white; Lisān adds that the sawād of a people is their great body.
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وسَوادُ القومِ: مُعْظَمُهم.
Who carried this name
- Sawād ibn Ghaziyyah al-Anṣārī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3595 (vol. 3, p. 180)