Sunbulah
سنبلة
Say it SUN-bu-lah
An ear of grain
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- s-n-b-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Sunbula, Sumbul, Sunbul
Meaning & source
An ear of grain: sanābil are the ears of wheat, barley and millet, and one is a sunbulah.
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والسَّنَابِل: سَنابِلُ الزَّرْعِ مِنَ البُرِّ وَالشَّعِيرِ والذُّرَة، الْوَاحِدَةُ سُنْبُلَةٌ.
Who carried this name
- Sunbulah bint Māʿiz al-Anṣāriyyah, of Banū Zurayq, who pledged allegiance Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11347 (vol. 8, p. 191)