Bahhath (Name)

Bahhath (transliteration: Baḥḥāth, Arabic: بحّاث) is an Arabic name for boys that means “seeker”, “searcher”, “researcher”, from the Arabic word baḥth (“to seek”, “to search”, “to research”).¹²³

There is one Companion of the Prophet Muhammad named Bahhath (although some sources mention that his name may have been Baḥḥāt rather than Baḥḥāth):

• Bahhath bin Thaalabah بحَّاث بن ثعلبة

Below is the name Bahhath written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Bahhath written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ (d. 1266 CE) , بحث.
2. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بحث.
3. Al-Rāghib al-Isfahānī, al-Mufradāt fī Gharīb al-Qurʾān (d. c. 1109 CE), بحث.