Halima
Halima or Halimah (Arabic: حليمة) /halima/, pronounced ha-LEE-mah, is a female given name of Arabic origin. Its meaning is gentle, mild-mannered and generous.
Halima has variant transliterations such as Haleema. When followed by a name beginning with a vowel, it may take the form Halimat.
It may refer to:
People
- Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb, the prophet Muhammad's foster mother.
- Halime Hatun, mother of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire.
- Halima (princess), 6th century princess of the Ghassan kingdom
- Halima Ahmed, Somali political activist
- Halima ECheikh, later known as Naama (born 1934), Tunisian singer
- Halima Tayo Alao (born 1956), Nigerian civil servant
- Halimat Ismaila (born 1984), Nigerian athlete
- Halima Hachlaf (born 1988), Moroccan runner
- Halima Chehaima (born 1988), Belgian beauty queen
- Halima Bashir, author from Darfur
- Halima Ferhat, Moroccan historian
- Halimah Yacob, President of Singapore
- Halimah Mohd Sadique, Malaysian politician
- Halema Boland, Kuwaiti famous television host
- Halima Nosirova (1913-2003), Uzbek singer
In older literature the name of the Tibetan Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama.
Mononyms
- Halima, mononym of American model Halima Aden
Places
- Kawrat Halimah, village in Yemen
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