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the name Zamzam
i need help finding what zamzam means. im from somalia muslim. i think it means holy water in arabic. can any one help me? thank you.
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It comes from zome, zome meaning stop ! Hagar said this expression when she first discovered the water
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Well, you are Muslim, you should know better than I do, but...
ZamZam is the name of the spring that sprang from below Ismael's foot when he and his mom Hagar were left in the desert. It was on ZamZam that Ibrahim / Abraham (Ismael's father) later built his house. Nowadays, that is the site of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
As far as I remember, ZamZam means "water", "a spring" or something like this.
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