Shaʿthāʾ
شعثاء
Say it shaʿ-THAA
Honoured as the name of al-Shaʿthāʾ, named in the poems of Ḥassān ibn Thābit
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- sh-ʿ-th
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Shaatha, Sha'tha, Shatha
What the word means
From a root that, Ibn Fāris says, means things spreading and coming apart; a shaʿth head is tousled and dusty.
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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[شعث] الشين والعين والثاء أَصل يدل على انتشارٍ فى الشَّئ.
Who carried this name
- al-Shaʿthāʾ, named in the poems of Ḥassān ibn Thābit; al-Suhaylī says she was his wife Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11378 (vol. 8, p. 201)