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Fatima (Arabic: فَاطِمَة, Fāṭimah), also spelled Fatimah, is a feminine given name of Arabic origin used throughout the Muslim world. Several relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad had the name, including his daughter Fatima as the most famous one. The literal meaning of the name is one who separates or one who abstains.
Khadija, Khadeeja or Khadijah (Arabic: خديجة, romanized: Khadīja) is an Arabic feminine given name, the name of Khadija bint Khuwaylid, first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In 1995, it was one of the three most popular Arabic feminine names in the Muslim world , along with Fatima and Aisha .
It originated from Aisha, the third wife of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and is a very popular name among Muslim women. Ayesha and Aisha are common variant spelling in the Arab World and among American Muslim women in the United States, where it was ranked 2,020 out of 4,275 for females of all ages in the 1990 US Census . [ 1 ]
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Tuba (also Anglicised as Tooba, Touba, or less frequently Toba; Arabic: طُوبَى, romanized: Ṭūbā, lit. 'blessedness' [1]) is a female name of Arabic origin.It has been common since the 1970s in Turkey, [2] where it is often spelt Tuğba (and that spelling has the same pronunciation as Tuba in Turkish), [2] but it has also been used in other parts of the Muslim world, notably in ...
Hafsa or Hafsah (Arabic: حفصة (often confused with Hafza and Hafiza, but all three of them are different names) is an Arabic female given name. [1] [2] It originated from Hafsa, the fourth wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and daughter of second Muslim caliph Umar. It is a popular name among Sunni Muslims. Notable people with the name ...
Alisha (Sanskrit: अलीशा Alīśā; Arabic: ,علیشا أليشا Alīshā) also refer as protected from God is a cognate of the Spanish-language feminine given name Alicia, [4] a variant of the French/German-language name Alice, which comes from Old English Æthelhādas or Æðelhādas, meaning noble or nobility.
There is a major discrepancy between the Hebrew/Aramaic and Muslim Arabic forms of this name, since the Hebrew form of this name has the voiced pharyngeal ʿayin ע or ʿayn ع consonant at the end of the name (as does Christian Arabic يسوع yasūʿ), while the Muslim Arabic form عيسى ʿīsā has the ʿayn at the beginning of the name.