Zamzam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An Islamic holy well in Mecca, supposed to have been miraculously generated by Allah when Abraham's infant son Ishmael was crying for water.

Word forms

Zamzam

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَمْزَم (zamzam).

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