ʿUqayl
عقيل
Say it u-QAYL
Good sense
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-q-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Uqayl, Ukail, Oqail
Meaning & source
A diminutive of ʿaql, good sense: al-Khalīl (quoted by Ibn Fāris) says ʿaql is the opposite of ignorance.
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قال الخليل: العَقل: نقيض الجهل.
Who carried this name
- ʿUqayl ibn Muqarrin al-Muzanī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5645 (vol. 4, p. 439)