Ubayy
أبيّ
Say it U-bayy
Name of the Companion Ubayy ibn Kaʿb
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ubayy, Ubai, Obay
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Lisān al-ʿArab and Maqāyīs al-Lughah treat the root ʾ-b-y / ʾ-b-w (refusing; fatherhood) but give no gloss for the name Ubayy, so we have left the meaning blank rather than guess.
Who carried this name
- Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, reciter of the Qurʾān Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 31 (vol. 1, p. 180)