Artat (Name)

Artat (transliteration: Arṭāt, Arabic: أرطاة) is an Arabic name for boys that refers to a type of tree that the scholar al-Sahib bin Abbad says the Persians call sanjaẓ.¹ In modern Persian, the word sanjad (which is almost certainly a modern development from the word sanjaẓ) refers to the genus of plants known as Elaeagnus, with the common name of “silver berry” and “Russian olive” in English.² The plant is described as “a plant that grows in sand. It has a good-smelling flower. Its fruit looks like grapes and is used in tanning.”³

Artat is also spelled as Artaat.

There are six Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Artat:

• Artat bin al-Harith أرطاة بن الحارث
• Artat bin Suhayyah أرطاة بن سهية
• Artat al-Taa’i أرطاة الطائي
• Artat bin Ka`b bin Sharaheel أرطاة بن كعب بن شراحيل
• Artat bin Ka`b bin Qais أرطاة بن كعب بن قيس
• Artat bin al-Munzir al-Sukooni أرطاة بن المنذر السكوني

Below is the name Artat written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Artat written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Al-Muheet fil Lughah by al-Sahib bin Abbad (d. c. 995 CE), entry for أرط.
2. Vazhehayeh Mosavvabeh Farhangestan, Academy of Persian Language and Literature, entry for سنجد.
3. Mu`jam al-Lughah al-Arabiyyah al-Mu`aasirah by Ahmad Mukhtar Umar (d. 2003 CE), entry for أرط.