Shaybān
شيبان
Say it shay-BAAN
Whiteness of hair
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- sh-y-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Shayban, Shaiban, Sheiban
Meaning & source
From shayb, the whiteness of the hair, little or much (Lisān), which also notes two clans of Bakr ibn Wāʾil called Shaybān.
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شيب: الشَّيْبُ: مَعْرُوفٌ، قَلِيلُه وكَثِيرُه بَياضُ الشَّعَر، والمَشِيبُ مِثْلُه، ورُبَّما سُمِّيَ الشَّعَرُ نَفْسُه شيْباً.
Who carried this name
- Shaybān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Naḥwī al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 150 (vol. 7, p. 406)