Shaybah
شيبة
Say it SHAY-bah
White hair
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- sh-y-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Shayba, Shaiba, Sheiba
Meaning & source
White hair: shayb is the whiteness of the hair, little or much (Lisān).
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شيب: الشَّيْبُ: مَعْرُوفٌ، قَلِيلُه وكَثِيرُه بَياضُ الشَّعَر، والمَشِيبُ مِثْلُه، ورُبَّما سُمِّيَ الشَّعَرُ نَفْسُه شيْباً.
Who carried this name
- Shaybah ibn ʿUthmān al-Ḥajabī, keeper of the Kaʿbah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 3964 (vol. 3, p. 298)