ʿUmayr
عمير
Say it u-MAYR
Lived in, flourishing
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-m-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Umair, Omair, Umayr
Meaning & source
A diminutive from ʿ-m-r, life and flourishing: a place that is ʿumayr is lived in.
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وَمَكَانٌ عَمِيرٌ: عامِرٌ.
Who carried this name
- ʿUmayr ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, martyred at Badr Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 6072 (vol. 4, p. 602)