Waḍḍāḥ
وضاح
Say it wad-DAAH
Bright-faced and smiling
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- w-ḍ-ḥ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The early generations
- Also spelled
- Waddah, Wadah, Waddaah
Meaning & source
Bright-faced: Lisān says a waḍḍāḥ man is handsome, fair-faced and smiling.
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وَرَجُلٌ وَضَّاحٌ: حَسَنُ الْوَجْهِ أَبيضُ بَسَّامٌ.
Who carried this name
- Abū ʿAwānah al-Waḍḍāḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh of Wāsiṭ al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, no. 39 (vol. 8, p. 217)