Zurʿah
زرعة
Say it ZUR-ah
Sown crops
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- z-r-ʿ
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Zura, Zur’ah, Zurah
Meaning & source
From zarʿ, sown crops; Lisān lists Zurʿah as a name.
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وزُرْعةُ وزُرَيْعٌ وزَرْعانُ: أَسماء.
Who carried this name
- Zurʿah ibn Khalīfah al-Yamāmī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 2810 (vol. 2, p. 466)
- Aṣram of the Shaqirah delegation, whom the Prophet ﷺ renamed Zurʿah (told in the entry of Usāmah ibn Akhdarī) Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 87, entry of Usāmah ibn Akhdarī (vol. 1, p. 202)
Ruling
What the scholars said about this name
A man named Aṣram came in a delegation; the Prophet ﷺ asked his name and said: “No, you are Zurʿah.”
General guidance, not a fatwa. Ask your imam about your own family.