Sumayrah
سميرة
Say it su-MAY-rah
Name of the Companion Sumayrah al-Qurashiyyah
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sumaira, Sumayra, Sumairah
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Sumayrah is a diminutive from the root s-m-r, whose words include sumrah, a tawny colour, and samar, talk by night, but we found no lexicon gloss for the name itself.
Who carried this name
- Sumayrah al-Qurashiyyah, one of the emigrant women Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11340 (vol. 8, p. 189)