Uways
أُوَيْس
Say it u-WAYS
Little wolf
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ʾ-w-s
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Owais, Uwais, Uways
Meaning & source
The diminutive of aws: “Uways is the diminutive of aws, the wolf”, and a name for the wolf.
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وأُويس: تَصْغِيرٌ أَوس، وَهُوَ الذِّئْبُ
Who carried this name
- Uways al-Qaranī, of whom the Prophet ﷺ told ʿUmar Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2542a