ASHRAF

Ashraf

Ashraf refers to someone who is a direct blood-line descent from Muhammad by way of his daughter Fatimah. The word is the plural of sharīf "noble", from sharafa "to be highborn" if pronounced with long ā in the second syllable, but with short a is the intensive of sharīf meaning "very noble", "nobler", "noblest".

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