Uthaylah
أثيلة
Say it u-THAY-lah
A slender tamarisk
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Arabic root
- ʾ-th-l
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Uthaila, Uthayla, Uthailah
Meaning & source
The diminutive of athlah, the tamarisk; Lisān says poets liken a tall, well-formed woman to the tamarisk for its height, straightness and fine proportion.
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ولسُمُوّ الأَثلة وَاسْتِوَائِهَا وَحُسْنِ اعْتِدَالِهَا شَبَّهَ الشُّعَرَاءُ المرأَة إِذا تَمَّ قَوامها وَاسْتَوَى خَلْقها بِهَا
Who carried this name
- Uthaylah bint al-Ḥārith al-Anṣāriyyah, of Banū al-Najjār, who pledged allegiance Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 10778 (vol. 8, p. 6)