Fatima (name)

Fatima
Gender Female
Origin
Word/Name Arabic
Meaning one who weans an infant or
one who abstains [1][2]
Other names
Related names Fatma, Fatemeh, Fatimah

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 (馬), is a common family name for Chinese Muslims, and is sometimes said to derive from the name Fatima.

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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.

Given name

Fátima

Fatemeh

Fatima

Fatimah

Fatma

Fadime

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