ʿUwaym
عويم
Say it u-WAYM
Name of the Companion ʿUwaym ibn Sāʿidah al-Anṣārī
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Uwaym, Uwaim, Owaim
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
ʿUwaym is a diminutive from ʿ-w-m (whose words include ʿām, a year), but Lisān al-ʿArab gives no gloss for the name itself, so we have left the meaning blank.
Who carried this name
- ʿUwaym ibn Sāʿidah al-Anṣārī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 6127 (vol. 4, p. 619)