Asfaa (Name)

Asfaa (transliteration: Asfaʿ, Arabic: أسفع) is an Arabic name for boys that means “something that is dark with a reddish hue”.¹²³ Asfaa also means “falcon”.⁴ Asfaa is also used to refer to wild oxen that have reddish black faces.⁵

Asfaa is also spelled Asfa’ and Asfa.

There are two Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Asfaa:

• al-Asfaa al-Bakri الأسفع البكري
• al-Asfaa al-Jarmi (al-Jurami?) الأسفع الجرمي

Below is the name Asfaa written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Asfaa written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Al-Misbaah al-Muneer by al-Fayyumi (d. 1368 CE), entry for سفع.
2. Al-Mu`jam al-Waseet by a Team of Writers (1998), entry for سفع.
3. Taj al-Lughah wa Sihaah al-Arabiyyah by al-Jawhari (d. 1003 CE), entry for سفع.
4. Taaj al-Aroos by Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1790 CE), entry for سفع.
5. Ibid.