ʿUqbah
عقبة
Say it UQ-bah
One coming after another
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʿ-q-b
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Uqba, Okba, Uqbah
Meaning & source
From ʿ-q-b: one thing coming after another, in turn.
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Who carried this name
- ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 5617 (vol. 4, p. 429)