Sumayyah
سميّة
Say it su-MAY-yah
Height, loftiness
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- s-m-w
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sumaya, Sumayyah, Somaya, Sümeyye
Meaning & source
From sumuww, height and loftiness.
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سما: السُّمُوُّ: الارْتِفاعُ والعُلُوُّ، تقول منه: سَمَوْتُ وسَمَيْتُ مِثْلَ عَلَوْت وعَلَيْت وسَلَوْت وسَلَيْت؛
Who carried this name
- Sumayyah bint Khabbāṭ (or Khayyāṭ), mother of ʿAmmār Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11342 (vol. 8, p. 189)