ʿUkkāshah
عكّاشة
Say it uk-KAA-shah
The spider
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-k-sh
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Ukkasha, Ukasha, Okasha
Meaning & source
The spider. Lisān: “and by it the man is named”.
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والعُكَاشة والعُكَّاشةُ: الْعَنْكَبُوتُ: وَبِهَا سُمِّيَ الرَّجُلُ.
Who carried this name
- ʿUkkāshah ibn Miḥṣan al-Asadī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5648 (vol. 4, p. 439)