Umaymah
أميمة
Say it u-MAY-mah
Little mother
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ʾ-m-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Umaima, Umaymah, Omaima
Meaning & source
The diminutive of umm, “mother”.
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قال الخليل: الأُمّ الواحدُ والجمع أمّهات، وربما قالوا أمٌّ وأمَّات.
Who carried this name
- Umaymah bint Ruqayqah Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10855 (vol. 8, p. 31)