Fatima (given name)

Fatima is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning

Fatima, or in exact transliteration Fatimah (Arabic فاطمة ) is an original Arabic name, the " The weaned (or weaned )" means. Typically, it is used as a Muslim first name to Fatima Zahra ( " Fatima, the Radiant ", " Radiant " ), the daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammad. The Turkish and Azerbaijani variant of the name is Fatma. North African paraphrases of the name often omit the unstressed second syllable and translate it also Romanized as Fatma; in West Africa occurs in the form of Fatou. The Persian transliteration is Fatemeh and Fadma on Kabyle among the Berbers.

The name of the Portuguese local Fátima is to go back to a Moorish princess who bore this name. After it is supposed to be born there in 1917 to Marian apparitions, the village was venerated a popular place of pilgrimage and the appearance as Maria de Fátima and Nossa Senhora de Fátima. This (ie portuguese Maria Fátima, Spanish María Fátima, Catalan Maria Fátima ) as the name of the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes developed in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Ibero-Romance language area as a whole a popular female first name, usually in association with the name Maria, also similar only after the Our ​​Lady's apparitions became a female name in Spanish-speaking area.

The last name Mǎ (马) is a common first name among Chinese Muslims and is considered as a derivation of the name Fatima.

Name winners

  • Fatima bint Muhammad ( 606-632 ), the name of the main daughter of the Prophet Muhammad
  • Fatima bint Musa ( 790-817 ), the name of the most important saints in Iran
  • Queen Fatima of Libya (1911-2009)
  • Fatima alias Anna Maria, married. of mirrors ( unbek ), the mistress of the Polish king Augustus II and mother of two of his children, see Augustus II (Poland )
  • Maria Fatima Banez Garcia, Spain since 2011, Labour and Social Affairs
  • Arab people name
  • Female first name
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