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Qayyum Surname Meaning

Muslim (mainly Pakistan): from a personal name based on Arabic qayyūm ‘self-subsisting’.

Al-Qayyūm ‘the Self-Subsisting One’ is an attribute of Allah (the attribute that imparts coherence to the world and keeps everything in its place)

giving rise to the compound name ʿAbdul-Qayyūm ‘servant of the Self-Subsisting One’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


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