Zahra (
Arabic
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: زهراء) is a female given name of Arabic origin. It means ‘beautiful, bright, shining and brilliant’. The name became popularized as a result of being the name of
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...
’s daughter,
Fatimah al-Zahra
Fāṭima bint Muḥammad ( ar, فَاطِمَة ٱبْنَت مُحَمَّد}, 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija. Fatima's husband was Ali, th ...
.
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The Ottoman empire expanded the use of this name to countries like Albania
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, Kosovo
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and Bosnia
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and the name was also popularized by the Persian empire's influence in the Indian subcontinent
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, respectively. ''Zahra'' is also used as a surname, particularly in Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...
.
The names are difficult to distinguish transliteration, and may be transliterated in various ways, such as ''Zehra'', ''Zahra(h)'', ''Zara'', and ''Zohrah.''
Female given name
Sahra
*Sahra Hausmann
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(born 1973), Norwegian team handball player
*Sahra Wagenknecht
Sahra Wagenknecht (born Sarah Wagenknecht; ; 16 July 1969) is a German politician, economist, author and publicist. Since 2009, she has been a member of the Bundestag for The Left. From 2015 to 2019 she served as parliamentary co-chair of her pa ...
(born 1969), German politician (with Iranian father)
Zahra
*Zahra Abdulla
Zahra Abdulla ( so, Sahra Cabdulla, ar, زهراء عبد الله; born 1966) is a Somali-born Finnish politician. She was a member of the Helsinki City Council from 1997 to 2017, representing the Green League.
Biography
Zahra was born in So ...
(born 1966), Somali-Finnish politician
*''Zahra Abrahimzadeh'', mother of Arman Abrahimzadeh
Arman Abrahimzadeh is an Iranian-Australian anti-domestic violence campaigner based in Adelaide, South Australia, co-founder of Zahra Foundation Australia .
Biography
Abrahimzadeh and his family migrated to Australia from Iran in 1997. His f ...
, murdered by her husband
** Zahra Foundation, named after her
*Zahra Ahmadi
Zahra Ahmadi ( fa, زهرا احمدی; born 1983) is a British actress from Plymouth England of Persian descent. She is best known for playing the original Shabnam Masood in EastEnders.
Career
She is known for her role as Shabnam Masood in the ...
(born 1983), British actress
* Zahra Airall, women's rights
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activist
*''Khalub Zahra'', was the mother of the 10th-century caliph
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of Baghdad al-Muttaqi
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Jaʿfar al-Muqtadir ( ar, أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن جعفر المقتدر) better known by his regnal title Al-Muttaqi (908 – July 968, ar, المتقي) was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 940 to 944. Hi ...
(r. 940–944).
*Zahra Amir Ebrahimi
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi ( fa, زهرا اميرابراهيمی; born July 9, 1981) known professionally as Zar Amir Ebrahimi (), is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director. She is best known for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahim ...
(born 1981), Iranian television actress
*Zahra Bahrami
Zahra Bahrami, also spelled Sahra Baahrami ( fa, زهرا بهرامی; 25 January 1965 – 29 January 2011) (Previous name: Zahra Mehrabi), was a dual Dutch and Iranian citizen who was executed in Iran after being arrested during a politica ...
(c. 1965–2011), Dutch/Iranian executed for drug trafficking
*Zahra Bani
Zahra Bani (born 31 December 1979) is a Somali-born Italian javelin thrower.
Biography
Bani was born in 1979 in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, to an Italian father and a Somali mother. In 1989, she moved to Torino, Italy with her family and ...
(born 1979), Somali-Italian javelin thrower
*Zahra Bani Yaghoub
Zahra Bani Yaghoub ( fa, زهرا بنییعقوب, also mentioned in the media as Zahra Bani Ameri; 16 October 1980 – 13 October 2007) was an Iranian medical doctor. She died in a prison in Hamedan after she was arrested by the Guidance P ...
(1980–2007), an Iranian doctor who died in prison
*Zohra Bensalem
Zohra Bensalem (born April 5, 1990, in Béjaïa
Béjaïa (; ; ar, بجاية, Latn, ar, Bijāya, ; kab, Bgayet, Vgayet), formerly Bougie and Bugia, is a Mediterranean port city and commune on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the ...
(born 1990), Algerian volleyball player
* Zahra Dowlatabadi (born 1962), Iranian filmmaker
*Zahra Eshraghi
Zahra Eshraghi Khomeini ( fa, زهرا اشراقی, translit=''Zahrâ Eshrâqi'') (born 1964) is an Iranian activist and former government official who believes in feminism and human rights.
Early life and education
Eshraghi was born in 1964. Sh ...
(born c. 1964), Iranian feminist and human rights activist
*Zahra Freeth
Zahra Freeth ( Irene Zahra Dickson; 1924/1925 – 20 May 2015) was a British author who wrote primarily about the Middle East. She was the daughter of H. R. P. Dickson (died 1959) and Dame Violet Dickson (died 4 January 1991).
Life
Zahra Dickso ...
(born c. 1930), a British writer on Middle Eastern subjects
* Zahra Jishi, Lebanese-American translator of Arabic literature
*Zahra Kamalfar
Zahra Kamalfar is an Iranian refugee living in Canada. She was originally from the Muslim Dervish sect and her husband was executed in Iranian custody. After her husband's death, she fled the country with her son Davood and daughter Anna. From T ...
, Iranian refugee to Canada
*Zahra Kazemi
Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi ( fa, زهرا کاظمی احمدآبادی; 1948 – 11 July 2003) was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photojournalist. She gained notoriety for her arrest in Iran and the circumstances in which she was held by I ...
(1949–2003), Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer
*Zahra Aga Khan
Princess Zahra Aga Khan (born 18 September 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland) is the eldest child of Aga Khan IV and his first wife, Princess Salimah Aga Khan.
Education
Princess Zahra attended Le Rosey School in Switzerland and received her undergr ...
(born 1970), Swiss-born princess
*Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh
Zahra Khanom or Taj al-Saltaneh (1884 – 25 January 1936; fa, تاجالسلطنه) also known as princess Qajar, was a princess of the Qajar dynasty, known as a feminist, a women's rights activist and a memoirist. She was the daughter of N ...
(1883–1936), a Persian princess
* Zahra' Langhi, Libyan gender specialist, civil society strategist and political activist
*Zahra Lari
Zahra Lari (born March 3, 1995), is an Emirati figure skater. She is the first figure skater from the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East to compete internationally. Lari is a five-time Emirati National Champion.
Along with her rigorous tra ...
, Emirati figure skater
* Zahra Mansouri, Moroccan poet
*Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini
Sayyida Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini ( fa, زهرا مصطفوی خمینی; born 13 November 1940) is an Iranian politician and educator. The daughter of Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian Revolution and subsequent Supreme Leader of Iran ...
(born c. 1940), Iranian politician, daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini
* Zahra Rahmat Allah (born 1954), Yemeni short story writer
*Zahra Rahnavard
Zahra Rahnavard ( fa, زهرا رهنورد; born Zohreh Kazemi; 19 August 1945) is an Iranian academic, artist and politician. Rahnavard is a university professor, artist under house arrest from February 2011 to May 2018. In 2009, Foreign Poli ...
(born 1945), Iranian artist and politician
*Zahra Ouaziz
Zahra Ouaziz ( ar, زهرة واعزيز) (born December 20, 1969 in Oulmes) is a retired Moroccan long-distance runner. She was the African record holder at 3000 metres and 5000 metres.
Career
Ouaziz broke the 5000 metres African Record in 1 ...
(born 1969), Moroccan long-distance runner
* Zahra Redwood, Jamaican beauty queen
* Zahra Schreiber, a wrestler in NXT
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* ''WWE NXT'', a professional wrestling television program produced by WWE that began in 2010
** NXT (WWE brand), WWE's Florida-based brand and former developmental territory
* ''NXT UK'', the British spin- ...
who was fired after posting Nazi images
* Zahra Shojaei, Iranian politician
* Zahra Universe, American musician and actress
Zehra
Given name
*Zehra Bilir Zehra Bilir (March 26, 1913 in Arapgir, Ottoman Empire – June 28, 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey) was a renowned Turkish folk singer of Armenian descent. She was known as the Edith Piaf of Turkey.
Life
Zehra Bilir was born Eliz Surhantakyan in Ar ...
(1913–2007), Turkish folk singer
* Zehra Borazancı (born 1989), Turkish Cypriot women's footballer
*Zehra Çırak
Zehra Çırak (Istanbul, 1960) is a Turkish-German writer.
She moved to Germany with her family when she was three years old and she has lived in Berlin since 1982. She started publishing in the magazine ''Flugfänger''.
Works
*''Flugfänger' ...
(born 1960), Turkish-German writer
*Zehra Deović
Zehra Deović (9 December 1938 – 30 October 2015) was a Bosnian sevdalinka-folk singer and was one of the leading female singers of the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia, along with Silvana Armenulić, Nada Mamula and Beba Selimović.
Deović sta ...
(1938–2015), Bosnian sevdalinka singer
*Zehra Fazal
Zehra Fazal is an American voice actress, known for voicing Nadia Rizavi in '' Voltron: Legendary Defender'' and Halo and Bluebird in '' Young Justice: Outsiders''. Greg Weisman, the co-creator of ''Young Justice: Outsiders'' said "I wrote the rol ...
(born 1986), South Asian-American voice actresses
*Zehra Güneş
Zehra Güneş (; born 7 July 1999) is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She plays in the middle blocker position. Currently, she plays for Vakıfbank Istanbul and is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.
Playing car ...
(born 1999), Turkish volleyball player
* Zehra Khan (born 1983), American artist
*Zehra Nigah
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, Pakistani Urdu poet
* Zehra Öktem (born 1959), Turkish archer
*Zehra Say
Zehra Say (1906 – 1990) was a Turkish painter and first Turkish woman to be officially married under the 1926 Civil Marriage law. She is known as one of the pioneering women of Atatürk's Turkey for her modern look on women's equality. As an ...
(1906–1990), Turkish painter
* Zehra Sayers (born 1953), Turkish scientist in structural biology
*Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk
Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk Koç (born 1979) is a former minister of Family, Labour and Social Services of Turkey.
Private life
Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk was born in Ordu, Turkey in 1979. She is the daughter of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) pol ...
(born 1979), Turkish politician
* Zehra Topel (born 1987), Turkish international chess master
Middle name
*Belkıs Zehra Kaya
Belkıs Zehra Kaya (born 18 March 1984) is a Turkish judoka competing in the +78 kg division.
In 2015, Kaya took the gold medal at the Grand Prix Zagreb, and two bronze medals, at the Grand Slam Baku and then at the 2015 European Games aga ...
(born 1984), Turkish judoka
Zohra
*Zohra Begum Kazi
Zohra Begum Kazi (15 October 19127 November 2007) was the first Bengali Muslim female physician. She was awarded Tamgha-e-Pakistan (1964), Begum Rokeya Padak (2002) and Ekushey Padak (2008).
Early life and family
Kazi was born in Rajnandgaon, C ...
(1912–2007), Bangladeshi physician
*Zohra Daoud
Zohra Yousuf Daoud ( prs, زهره يوسف داود); (born 1954 in Kabul) is an American TV celebrity, radio show host and journalist of Afghan descent. In December 1972 Daoud became the only woman to this date ever to be crowned ''Miss Afghanis ...
(born 1954), Afghan actress and model
*Zohra Drif
Zohra Drif Bitat ( ar, زهرة ظريف بيطاط, Zuhra Ḍrīf Bīṭāṭ, born 28 December 1934) is a retired Algerian lawyer, moudjahid (a militant of the Algerian War of Independence), and the vice-president of the Council of the Nation ...
(born 1934), lawyer and member of the Algerian senate
*Zohra Lampert
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Among her performances were as the title character in the 1971 cult horror film ...
(born 1937), American character actress
*Zohra Sehgal
Zohra Mumtaz Sehgal (born Sahibzadi Zohra Mumtazullah Khan Begum; 27 April 1912 – 10 July 2014) was an Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer. Having begun her career as a member of a contemporary dance troupe, she transitioned into acting ...
(1912–2014), Indian actress
*Zohra Sarwari
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Early life
Sarwari was born in Afghanistan and ...
, Afghan-American author
Zohre
*Zohre Esmaeli
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Biography
Early years
Zohre Esmaeli was born on Jul ...
(born 1985), Afghan model, designer and author
Zuhra
* Zuhra Ramdan Agha Al-Awji (active 1920s), Turkish-Libyan educator
Part of the female given name ''Fatimah Zahra''
Fatimah
Fāṭima bint Muḥammad ( ar, فَاطِمَة ٱبْنَت مُحَمَّد}, 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija. Fatima's husband was Ali, th ...
was the daughter of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...
, and is greatly revered by Muslims, often under the extended name ''Fatimah az-Zahra' '', , or ''Fatimah Zahra' '', . This has then been used as a female given name as follows.
* Fatima Al Zahraa Haider (born ca. 1910), an Egyptian princess
*Lalla Fatima Zohra
Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra (29 June 1929 – 10 August 2014) was the eldest daughter of Mohammed V of Morocco and his first wife, Lalla Hanila bint Mamoun. On 16 August 1961 (in a triple ceremony with her sisters, Aisha, Malika and their husband ...
(born 1929), Moroccan princess
*Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known as Assia Djebar
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar ( ar, آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted fo ...
(born 1936), Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker
*Fatima Zohra Karadja
Fatima Zohra Karadja (born 1949) is a Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for Northern Africa.
Ms Karadja was born on April 20, 1949, in Algiers, Algeria. She is a child therapist, holding a PhD in psych ...
(born 1949), Algerian, Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for Northern Africa
*Fatma-Zohra Oukazi
Fatima-Zohra Oukazi (born January 18, 1984, in Chlef) is an Algerian international volleyball player and Algeria women's national volleyball team captain (2010-2012), playing as setter. At club level she made her debut for GS Chlef, based in her ...
(born 1984), Algerian volleyball player
*Fatima Zohra Cherif
Fatima Zohra Cherif (born November 8, 1986) is an Algerian volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under ...
(born 1986), Algerian volleyball player
* Fatima Zahra Djouad (born 1988), Algerian volleyball player
Male given name
*Zuhrah ibn Kilab
Zuhrah ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ( ar, زهرة بن كلاب بن مُرة) was the great-grandfather of Aminah bint Wahb, and was thus the great-great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was also the progenitor of the Banu Zuhrah clan of ...
, great-great-granduncle of Muhammad.
Surname
*Adrian Zahra
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Career Melbourne Knights
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(born 1990), Australian footballer (of Maltese descent)
* Antoine Zahra (disambiguation), several people
* Brian K. Zahra (born ca. 1960), American judge
*Christian Zahra
Christian John Zahra (born 8 April 1973) was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from October 1998 to October 2004, representing the regional seat of McMillan, Victoria.
At the 2001 Federal Election, he ...
(born 1973), Maltese-Australian politician
*Francesco Zahra
Francesco Vincenzo Zahra ( mt, Franġisk Żahra, 15 December 1710 – 19 August 1773) was a Maltese painter who mainly painted religious works in the Neapolitan Baroque style. His works may be found in many churches around the Maltese Islands, as ...
(1710–1773), Maltese painter
*Hindi Zahra
Hindi Zahra (Tamazight: ⵀⵉⵏⴷⵉ ⵣⴰⵀⵕⴰ, Arabic: هندي زهرة, born 20 January 1979 in Khouribga, Morocco) is a Moroccan singer. When coming up with a stage name, she simply inverted her birth name. Her songs are mostly in ...
(born 1979), Moroccan pop singer
*Julie Zahra
Julie Ann Zahra (born 1982 in Malta) is a Maltese politician and singer who represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey
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(born 1982), Maltese singer
*Muhammad Abu Zahra
Muhammad Abu Zahra (Arabic: محمد أبو زهرة), (1898–1974) was an Egyptian public intellectual and an influential Hanafi jurist. He occupied a number of positions; he was a lecturer of Islamic law at Al-Azhar University and a professor ...
(1898–1974), Egyptian scholar of Islamic law and author
* Scott Zahra, Australian rugby league player
*Trevor Żahra
Trevor Żahra (born 16 December 1947) is a Maltese novelist, poet and illustrator. He has published over 120 books in the Maltese language since 1971.
Biography
Żahra was born on 16 December 1947 in Żejtun. He worked as a school teacher for ...
(born 1947), Maltese novelist, poet and illustrator
See also
*Abdul Zahra Abd al-Zahra ( ar, عبد الزهرة ) is a male Arabic given name. The name is built from the Arabic words '' Abd'', ''al-'' and '' Zahra'', and means ''Servant of Zahra''. It is commonly associated with Shi'ites, who especially revere Fatima ...
, Arabic male name
*Sarah (given name)
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, female given name
* Zara (given name), female given name
*Zerah
Zerah or Zérach ( / "sunrise" Standard Hebrew ''Zéraḥ'' / ''Záraḥ'', Tiberian Hebrew ''Zéraḥ'' / ''Zāraḥ'') refers to several different people in the Hebrew Bible.For the etymology see
An Edomite
Zerah was the name of an Edomite chi ...
, male given name occurring in the Hebrew Bible
*Zuhra (الزُهرة), the Arabic word for Venus
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References
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Arabic feminine given names
Bosnian feminine given names
Pakistani feminine given names