Hawramani Encyclopedia of Muslim Baby Names

Bishr (Name)

Bishr (transliteration: Bishr, Arabic: بشر) is an Arabic name for boys that means “cheerfulness”, “good cheer”, “geniality”, “affability”, the fact of someone having a happy and smiling face and amiable manners toward others.123 Bishr is also the name of a mountain in Najd (the central part of the Arabian peninsula)4, and the name of a well belonging to the Arabian tribe of Taghlib.5

There are 43 Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Bishr:

  • Bishr al-Asadi بِشر الأسدي
  • Bishr bin al-Baraa’ bin Ma`roor بشر بن البراء بن معرور
  • Bishr al-Thaqafi بِشر الثقفي
  • Bishr bin al-Harath بشر بن الحارث
  • Bishr bin al-Harith bin Amr بشر بن الحارث بن عمر
  • Bishr bin al-Harith bin Qais بِشر بن الحارث بن قيس
  • Bishr bin Handhalah al-Ju`fi بِشر بن حنظلة الجعفي
  • Bishr bin Rabee`ah bin Amr بشر بن ربيعة بن عمر
  • Bishr bin Rabee`ah بشر بن ربيعة
  • Bishr bin Rudaih بشر بن رديح
  • Bishr bin Suhaim بشر بن سحيم
  • Bishr bin Sufyan al-Ataki بشر بن سفيان العتكي
  • Bishr al-Salmi بشر السلمي
  • Bishr bin Shabr بشر بن شبر
  • Bishr bin Sahar al-Abdi بِشر بن صحار العبدي
  • Bishr bin Aasim بشر بن عاصم
  • Bishr bin Aasim bin Sufyan al-Thaqafi بشر بن عاصم بن سفيان الثقفي
  • Bishr bin Aamir bin Maalik al-Aamiri بشر بن عامر بن مالك العامري
  • Bishr bin Aamir bin Maalik bin Ja`far بشر بن عامر بن مالك بن جعفر
  • Bishr bin Abdullah al-Ansari al-Khazraji بشر بن عبد الله الأنصاري الخزرجي
  • Bishr bin Abdullah بشر بن عبد الله
  • Bishr bin Abd بشر بن عبد
  • Bishr bin Urfutah bin al-Khashkhash al-Juhani بشر بن عرفطة بن الخشخاش الجهني
  • Bishr bin Ismah al-Laithi بشر بن عصمة الليثي
  • Bishr bin Ismah al-Muzani بشر بن عصمة المزني
  • Bishr bin Atiyyah بشر بن عطية
  • Bishr bin Aqrabah al-Juhani Abu Yamaan بشر بن عقربة الجهني أبو يمان
  • Bishr al-Ghanawi father of Abdullah bin Bishr بشر الغنوي والد عبد الله بن بشر
  • Bishr al-Ghanawi بشر الغنوي
  • Bishr bin Quhaif بشر بن قحيف
  • Bishr bin Qudamah al-Dhubabi بشر بن قدامة الضبابي
  • Bishr bin Qutbah bin Sinan bin al-Haarith بشر بن قطبة بن سنان بن الحارث
  • Bishr bin Qais بشر بن قيس
  • Bishr bin Qais bin Kaladah al-Tamimi al-Anbari بشربن قيس بن كلدة التميمي العنبري
  • Bishr bin al-Muhtafiz بشر بن المحتفز
  • Bishr bin Mas`ud بشر بن مسعود
  • Bishr bin Mu`adh al-Asadi بشر بن معاذ الأسدي
  • Bishr bin Mu`awiyah bin Thawr بشر بن معاوية بن ثور
  • Bishr bin al-Mu`alla بشر بن المعلى
  • Bishr bin al-Hajanna` al-Bakka’i بشر بن الهجنع البكائي
  • Bishr bin Hilal al-Abdi بشر بن هلال العبدي
  • Bishr Abu Khalifah بشر أبو خليفة

Below is the name Bishr written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Bishr written in Arabic kufi script:

Footnotes

  1. Al-Muṭarrizī, al-Mughrib fī Tartīb al-Muʿrib (d. 1213 CE), ب ش ر.
  2. Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya (d. 1003 CE), بشر.
  3. Al-Rāghib al-Isfahānī, al-Mufradāt fī Gharīb al-Qurʾān (d. c. 1109 CE), بشر.
  4. Sultan Qaboos Encyclopedia of Arab Names (Sultan Qaboos University, 1985), بِشْر.
  5. Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab (d. 1311 CE), بشر.
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