Tasnim — Name Meaning in Islam

Root: س-ن-م (s-n-m), whose sense is height and the raised top of a thing. Tasnīm is the tafʿīl pattern, a verbal noun of raising up: the elevating, the making high. It is the name of a spring in Paradise, mentioned in the Qur'an at al-Mutaffifin 83:27, where the drink of the righteous is said to be mixed from tasnīm, and at 83:28 described as a spring from which those brought near drink.

From the same root: sanām (the hump of a camel, the highest point of the animal — and by extension the summit or best part of anything), musannam (raised, made to rise in a mound), sanima (to grow a hump), asnima (humps, plural), and tasnīm used in ordinary Arabic for raising something above the level around it. Commentators explain the spring's name from exactly this: that it flows down from above, the loftiest of the springs of Paradise, which is why its water comes to the rest as a mixture rather than the reverse.

Spellings: Tasnim, Tasneem, Tesnim (Turkish), Tasnim (Indonesian), Tasneem (Urdu), Tasnim or Tesnime (French and Maghrebi), تسنيم.

Pronunciation: tas-NĪM, stress on the second syllable, which holds a long ī. Every sound in the name has a straightforward English equivalent.

Masculine counterpart: none in common use.