ʿUṣaymah
عصيمة
Say it ʿu-ṢAY-mah
Protection, safekeeping
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ʿ-ṣ-m
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Usaima, Usayma, Usaimah
Meaning & source
The diminutive of ʿIṣmah, protection; Lisān lists both among names formed from this root.
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وَقَدْ سَمَّوْا عِصْمةَ وعُصَيْمةَ وعاصِماً وعُصَيْماً ومَعْصوماً وعِصاماً.
Who carried this name
- ʿUṣaymah bint Abī al-Aflaḥ, who pledged allegiance Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 11483 (vol. 8, p. 240)