Umm (given Name)

Umm () means ''mother'' in

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...

. It is a common Arabic feminine alias, and used to be a common feminine given name, with the masculine counterpart being Ab or Abu. The name may refer to: ;Companions or other people related to the Islamic prophet Muhammad * Umm Anmaar *

Umm al-Darda Umm al-Darda al-Kubra ( Arabic: أم الدرداء الكبرى) was a companion of prophet Muhammad. She was a prominent jurist during the 7th century in Damascus. One of her students, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān, was the 5th Umayyad caliph. H ...

Umm Ayman (Barakah) Baraka bint Thaʿlaba ( ar, بَـرَكَـة بنت ثَعلَبَة), commonly known by her kunya Umm Ayman ( ar, أمّ أيمن, links=no), was an early Muslim and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. She was an Abyssinian slave of ...

* Umm Hakim bint Abdul Muttalib *

Umm ul-Banin Fāṭima bint Ḥuzām al-Kilābīyya al-ʿAlawīyya (; died 683/684 or 69 A.H. 688/689), better known as ʾUmm al-Banīn ( ar, أُمّ ٱلْبَنِين, meaning "Mother of the Sons"), was a wife of Ali. She was from the tribe of Banu Kila ...

Umm Hakim Umm Ḥakīm bint al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ( ar, أم حكيم بنت الحارث بن هشام) was a female companion of Muhammad and later a wife of Umar, the second caliph of Islam. Family life Umm Hakim was daughter of al-Harith al- ...

Umm Jamil Arwā bint Ḥarb ( ar, أروى بنت حرب), better known as Umm Jamīl ( ar, أم جميل), was an aunt-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who is mentioned in the Quran. She was Abu Lahab's wife and Abu Sufyan's sister. Arwa is usuall ...

Umm al-Khair Umm al-Khayr al-Bariqiyya, ( ar, ام الخير بنت الحريش البارقي ) (fl. 7th century C.E.) was a figure in early Islamic history. She was the daughter of al-Huraysh b. Suraqah b. Mirdas al-Bariqi, She was among the most eloquen ...

Salma Umm-ul-Khair Salma Umm al-Khayr bint Sakhar ( ar, سَلْمَىٰ أُمّ ٱلْخَيْر بِنْت صَخَر, ''Salmā ʾUmm al-Khayr ibnat Ṣakhar'') was the companion of Islamic prophet Muhammad and was the mother of Abu Bakr, the first Rashidun Ca ...

, mother of Abū Bakr, the first Caliph *

Umm Kulthum bint Jarwal Umm Kulthūm bint Jarwal (Arabic: أم كلثوم بنت جرول), also known as Mulayka (Arabic: مليكة), was a wife of Umar and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Biography She was born in Mecca as a member of the Khuza'a tr ...

Umm Ma'bad ʿĀtika bint Khālid al-Khuzāʿīyya () nicknamed Umm Maʿbad () is a woman who lived during the time of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. She was from the tribe Khuza'ah. She is noted for providing a physical description of him. According to a book ...

Ibn Umm Maktūm Abdullah ibn Umm-Maktum ( ar, عبد الله بن أم مكتوم) (died 636) was, according to Ibn Kathir (d.1373), a companion of Islamic prophet Muhammad. In some traditions his name has also appeared as `Amr ibn Umm-Maktum. The first verses ...

Umm Qirfa The Banu Fazara or Fazzara or Fezara or Fezzara () were an Arab tribe whose original homeland was Najd. Origins of the tribe According to Arab genealogical tradition, the progenitor of the Banu Fazara was Fazāra ibn Dhubyān ibn Baghīd ibn Ra ...

* Umm Ruman *

Umm Sulaym bint Milham __NOTOC__ Al-Rumayṣāʾ bint Milḥān ( ar, الرميصاء بنت ملحان; died 650 CE; 28 AH), popularly known by her kunya as Umm Sulaym, was one of the earliest women converts to Islam in Yathrib (now Medina). Umm Sulaym was first ma ...

* Umm Shareek *

Umm Ubays Umm ʿUbays ( ar, أُمُّ عُبَيْسٍ) or Umm ʿUmays was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. She was a slave in Mecca who became an early convert to Islam. After 614 she was tortured in an attempt to force her to renounce her ...

Umm Waraqa Umm Waraqah bint 'Abd Allah b. Al-harith (), was a contemporary of Islamic prophet Muhammad. She knew the entire Qur'an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central ...

;Other * Umm Darda as Sughra, 7th-century jurist and scholar of Islam in Damascus and Jerusalem *

Umm Al-Kiram Umm al-Kirām bint al-Mut'asim b. Sumādih ( ar, أم الكرام بنت المعتصم ابن صُمادح, late 11th century) was a princess and Andalusian poet, daughter of Abu Yahyà Muhammad ben Ma'n, al-Mutasim, king of the Taifa of Almerí ...

, 11th-century Andalusian princess and poet * Umm Kulthum (name) *

Umm Nidal Maryam Mohammad Yousif Farhat ( ar, مريم محمد يوسف فرحات), or Mariam Farahat (24 December 1949 – 17 March 2013), popularly known as Umm Nidal ( ar, أم نضال), "the mother of Nidal", or "''Khansa of Palestine''" ( ar, خن ...

(born Maryam Mohammad Yousif Farhat, 1949-2013), Palestinian politician *

Umm Al-Quwain Umm Al Quwain is the capital and largest city of the Emirate of Umm Al Quwain in the United Arab Emirates. The city is located on the peninsula of Khor Al Bidiyah, with the nearest major cities being Sharjah to the southwest and Ras Al Khaima ...

, one of the seven constituent emirates of the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia ( The Middle East). It is located at ...

* Umm-Salma (disambiguation) * Umm Sayyaf (born Nasrin As'ad Ibrahim), widow of ISIL member Abu Sayyaf killed in 2015 {{Given name Arabic feminine given names