Shaymāʾ
شيماء
Say it shay-MAA
Having a beauty mark
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- sh-y-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Shaima, Shaymaa, Şeyma
Meaning & source
Having a beauty mark (shāmah, a mole on the skin).
-
والأُنثى شَيْماء.
Who carried this name
- al-Shaymāʾ, the Prophet’s foster-sister Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11390 (vol. 8, p. 205)