Ashyam (Name)

Ashyam (transliteration: Ashyam, Arabic: أشيم) is an Arabic name for boys that means “one who has beauty marks”.¹² It is the masculine form of the girl name Shaima.³ Ashyam is also spelled as Ashiam.

There are two Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Ashyam:

• Ashyam al-Dhibabi أَشيَم الضبابي
• al-Ashyam (last name unknown) الأشيم غير منسوب

Below is the name Ashyam written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Ashyam written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Al-Qamoos al-Muheet by Fairuzabadi (d. 1414 CE), entry for الشِيمَةُ.
2. Al-Maghrib fi Tarteeb al-Ma`rib by al-Mutarrizi (d. 1213 CE), entry for شيم.
3. Al-Mu`jam al-Waseet by a Team of Writers (1998), entry for شيم.