Thumāmah
ثمامة
Say it thu-MAA-mah
A slender grass
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- th-m-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Thumama, Thumamah, Sumame
Meaning & source
One plant of thumām, a slender grass; Lisān says the man’s name is taken from it.
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وَبِهَا سُمِّيَ الرَّجُلُ ثُمامة
Who carried this name
- Thumāmah ibn Uthāl, chief of the Banū Ḥanīfah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 963 (vol. 1, p. 525)