Fatima (name)
| Fatima | |
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| Gender | Female |
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| Word/Name | Arabic |
| Meaning | one who weans an infant or one who abstains [1][2] |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Fatma, Fatemeh, Fatimah |
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Fatima (Arabic: فاطمة , Fāṭimah) is an Arabic female given name, commonly used among Muslims and is especially revered among Shias.
The town of Fátima in Portugal was named after a Moorish princess. It was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholics.
The surname Mǎ (馬), is a common family name for Chinese Muslims, and is sometimes said to derive from the name Fatima.[citation needed]
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[edit] Variations
The Turkish and Azeri transliteration of the name is either Fatma or Fadime. North African transliterations of the name also often omit the unstressed second syllable and render it as Fatma when romanized. In Somali the name became Faduma. The Persian transliteration is Fatemeh and it is Faḍma in Kabyle. Spelt as Fátima, the name is also common amongst Spaniards and Portuguese due to historical Arabic and Islamic cultural influence, as well as their cultural descendants in the Americas.
[edit] Given name
[edit] Fátima
- Fátima Aburto Baselga, Spanish physician and politician
- Fátima Choi, politician in Macau
- Fátima Felgueiras, Portuguese politician
- Fátima Guedes, Brazilian singer and composer.
- Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
- Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
- Fátima Madrid, Spanish swimmer
- Fátima Miranda, Spanish singer and researcher
- Fátima Veiga, Cape Verdean politician and diplomat
[edit] Fatemeh
- Fatemeh Javadi, conservative politician and one of the current Vice Presidents of Iran
[edit] Fatima
- Fatima bint Asad, Muhammad's aunt, the mother of first Shi’a Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima Zahra
- Fatima bint Hizam, mother of Abbas ibn Ali and a wife of the first Shia Imam
- Fātima bint Mūsā, sister of Ali al-Rida
- Fatima Aouam, Moroccan middle distance runner
- Fatima Bhutto, niece of the late, Benazir Bhutto
- Fatima de Madrid, astronomer
- Fatima Jibrell, Goldman Environmental Prize-winning Somali environmentalist
- Fatima Jinnah sister of Pakistan's first governor-general, Muhammed Ali Jinnah
- Fatima Kuinova, Soviet-Bukharan Jewish singer and "Honored Artist of the USSR"
- Fatima Moreira de Melo, Dutch hockey and poker player
- Fatima Robinson, American choreographer
- Fatima Siad, fashion model
- Fatima Silva, Portuguese long-distance runner
- Fatima Whitbread, British former javelin thrower and multiple medal-winner
- Miss Fatima, former British Women's Chess Champion.
- Bluebeard's last wife, by legend, is known as Fatima
[edit] Fatimah
- Fatimah bint Amr grandmother of Muhammad
- Fatimah, also called "Fatima Zahra" ("Fatima the shining one"), daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Fatimah bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn bin Ali
- Fatimah bint al-Khattab
[edit] Fatma
- Fatma Abdulhabib Fereji, Tanzanian politician
- Fatma Ali, Tanzanian politician
- Fatma Ekenoğlu, Turkish Cypriot politician
- Fatma Gadri, Azerbaijani theatre actress
- Fatma Girik, Turkish actress and politician
- Fatma Koşer Kaya, Dutch politician
- Fatma Lanouar, Tunisian runner
- Fatma Neslişah, paternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdülmecid II
- Fatma Salman Kotan, Turkish politician
- Fatma Samoura, United Nations official from Senegal
- Fatma-Zohra Oukazi, Algerian volleyball player
[edit] Fadime
[edit] Fictional characters
- Fatima Blush, "Bond girl" from the movie Never Say Never Again
- Fatima Doohan, from the computer game Anachronox
[edit] See also
- Eye of Fatima
- Our Lady of Fatima
- Fatima The Gracious (book), a biography of Fatima Zahra
- Glossary of Islamic terms in Arabic
[edit] References
- ^ Sue Browder (1997). The New Age Baby Name Book. p. 101. http://books.google.com/books?id=xd6lv6DAUdEC&pg=PA359&dq=baby+names+and+meanings&cd=11#v=onepage&q=fatima&f=false.
- ^ Teresa Norman (2003). A World of Baby Names. The Berkley Publishing Group. p. 11. http://books.google.com/books?id=uSAlLaV6JIEC&pg=PA341&dq=baby+names+and+meanings&cd=3#v=onepage&q=fatima&f=false.
