Zahra (name)
| Zahra |
| Gender |
female |
| Origin |
| Word/Name |
Arabic |
| Meaning |
flower, bright |
The female given name Zahra corresponds to two different, though related, Arabic words,
- Arabic: زهراء , pronounced Zahra', meaning bright, shinning, brilliant and
- Arabic: زهرة , pronounced Zahrah, meaning flower, blossom, or beauty.[1][2]
- Persian: زهرا , pronounced Zahra, is a further spelling variant.
The Ottoman and Persian empires have expanded the use of these names to Slavic countries and the Indian subcontinent, respectively. Zahra is also used as a surname, particularly in Malta.
The names are difficult to distinguish in transliteration, and may be transliterated in various ways, such as Zehra and Zohra(h)
The names may apply to the following.
Female given name
- Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883-1936), Persian princess
- Zuhra Ramdan Agha Al-Awji (active 1920s), Turkish-Libyan educator
- Zohra Begum Kazi (1912-2007), Bangladeshi physician
- Zohra Segal (born 1912), Indian actress
- Zahra Freeth (born ca. 1930), British writer on Middle Eastern subjects
- Zehra Nigah (active since 1950s), Pakistani Urdu poetess
- Zohra Drif (born 1934), lawyer and member of the Algerian senate
- Zohra Lampert (born 1937), American character actress
- Zehra Deović (born 1938), Bosnian sevdalinka singer
- Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini (born ca. 1940), Iranian politician, daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini
- Zahra Rahnavard (born 1945), Iranian artist and politician
- Zahra Kazemi (1949–2003), Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer
- Zohra Daoud (born 1954), Afghan actress and model
- Zahra Rahmat Allah (born 1954), Yemeni short story writer
- Zahra Dowlatabadi (born 1962), Iranian filmmaker
- Zahra Eshraghi (born ca. 1964), Iranian feminist and human rights activist
- Zahra Bahrami (ca. 1965–2011), Dutch/Iranian executed for drug trafficking
- Zahra Abdulla (born 1966), Somali-Finnish politician
- Zahra Ouaziz (born 1969), Moroccan long-distance runner
- Sahra Wagenknecht (born 1969), German politician (with Iranian father)
- Zahra Aga Khan (born 1970), Swiss-born princess
- Sahra Hausmann (born 1973), Norwegian team handball player
- Hindi Zahra (born 1979), Moroccan pop singer
- Zahra Bani (born 1979), Somali-Italian javelin thrower
- Zahra Bani Yaghoub (1980-2007), Iranian doctor who died in prison
- Zahra Ahmadi (born 1981), Brtish actress
- Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (born 1981), Iranian television actress
- Zohra Ayachi (born 1988), French footballer
- Zohra Bensalem (born 1990), Algerian volleyball player
- Zahra Shojaei, Iranian politician
- Zohra Sarwari, Afghan-American author
- Zahra Mansouri, Moroccan poet
- Zahra Jishi, Lebanese-American translator of Arabic literature
- Zahra Kamalfar, Iranian refugee to Canada
- Zahra Redwood, Jamaican beauty queen
- Zahra Universe, American pop musician and actress
Part of the female given name Fatimah Zahra
Fatimah was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and is greatly revered by Muslims, often under the extended name Fatimah az-Zahra' , Arabic: الزهراء فاطمة or Fatimah Zahra' , Arabic: زهراء فاطمة . This has then been used as a female given name as follows.
- Fatima Al Zahraa Haider (born ca. 1910), Egyptian princess
- Lalla Fatima Zohra (born 1929), Moroccan princess
- Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known as Assia Djebar (born 1936), Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker
- Fatima Zohra Karadja (born 1949), Algerian, Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for Northern Africa
- Fatma-Zohra Oukazi (born 1984), Algerian volleyball player
- Fatima Zohra Cherif (born 1986), Algerian volleyball player
- Fatima Zahra Djouad (born 1988), Algerian volleyball player
Male given name
Surname
See also
References
- ^ Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
- ^ S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.