Fatima (name)
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Fatima is an Arabic female given name, commonly used among Muslim
s 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 Mǎ
(馬), is a common family name for Chinese Muslims
, and is sometimes said to derive from the name Fatima.
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 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
.
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
s and is especially revered among Shias.
The town of Fátima
Fátima, Portugal
Fátima is a city in Portugal famous for the Marian apparitions, recognized by the Catholic Church, that took place there in 1917. The town itself has a population of 7,756 and is located in the municipality of Ourém, in the Centro Region and Médio Tejo Subregion...
in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
was named after a Moorish
Moors
The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of the Maghreb region who are predominately of Berber and Arab descent. They came to conquer and rule the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. At that time they were Muslim, although earlier the people had followed...
princess. It was the site of a famous Marian apparition
Our Lady of Fatima
Our Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...
in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholics.
The surname Mǎ
Ma (surname)
Ma is one of the most common Chinese family names. As of 2006, it ranks as the 14th most common Chinese surname in Mainland China and the most common surname within the Chinese Muslim community, specifically the Hui people, Dongxiang people, and Salar people...
(馬), is a common family name for Chinese Muslims
Islam in China
Throughout the history of Islam in China, Chinese Muslims have influenced the course of Chinese history. Chinese Muslims have been in China for the last 1,400 years of continuous interaction with Chinese society...
, and is sometimes said to derive from the name Fatima.
Variations
The TurkishTurkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
and Azeri
Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...
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
Somali language
The Somali language is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Its nearest relatives are Afar and Oromo. Somali is the best documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies beginning before 1900....
the name became Faduma. The Persian transliteration is Fatemeh and it is in Kabyle
Kabyle language
Kabyle or Kabylian is a Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people north and northeast of Algeria. Estimates about the number of speakers range from 5 million to about 7 million speakers worldwide, the majority in Algeria.-Classification:The classification of Kabyle is Afro-Asiatic, Berber and...
. Spelt as Fátima, the name is also common amongst Spaniards and Portuguese
Portuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....
due to historical Arabic and Islamic cultural influence, as well as their cultural descendants in the Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
.
Fátima
- Fátima Aburto BaselgaFátima Aburto BaselgaFátima Aburto Baselga is a Spanish physician and politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party...
, Spanish physician and politician - Fátima ChoiFátima ChoiFátima Choi aliás Choi Mei Lei MSc, BSc was a Commissioner of Audit in Macau.Born in Macao. Choi obtained a Master of Science degree in statistics and Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Essex....
, politician in Macau - Fátima FelgueirasFátima FelgueirasMaria de Fátima da Cunha Felgueiras is the mayor of the Felgueiras municipality, in northern Portugal.-Personal life:...
, Portuguese politician - Fátima GuedesFátima Guedes-External links:...
, Brazilian singer and composer. - Fátima LeyvaFátima LeyvaFátima Leyva Morán is a Mexican footballer. She plays as a midfielder for the Mexico women's national football team.-Career:...
, Mexican footballer - Fátima LopesFátima LopesFátima Lopes, ComIH is a Portuguese fashion designer.Fátima comes from the Portuguese island of Madeira. She was born and grew up in its capital city, Funchal. Since an early age she showed an interest in fashion and during her adolescence, unhappy with what the shops had to offer in terms of...
, Portuguese fashion designer - Fátima MadridFátima MadridFátima Madrid Calancha is a former freestyle swimmer from Spain, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 4x100m Freestyle Relay, alongside Blanca Cerón, Susanna Garabatos, and Claudia...
, Spanish swimmer - Fátima MirandaFátima MirandaFátima Miranda is a Spanish singer and researcher born in Salamanca. She has a bachelor's degree in history of art, with a specialisation in modern art. As a singer, her compositions touch several genres like Mongol Song or Indian Dhrupad. She has investigated the human voice and created...
, Spanish singer and researcher - Fátima VeigaFátima VeigaMaria de Fátima da Veiga is a Cape Verdean politician and diplomat. Veiga was the foreign minister from 2002–2004. She was the first female foreign minister in Cape Verde's history....
, Cape Verdean politician and diplomat
Fatemeh
- Fatemeh JavadiFatemeh JavadiFatemeh Javadi is a conservative Iranian politician and was Vice Presidents of Iran from 2005 to 2009. She is the niece of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli.-Education:...
, conservative politician and one of the current Vice Presidents of Iran
Fatima
- Fatima bint Asad, Muhammad's aunt, the mother of first Shi’a Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima Zahra
- Fatima bint Hizam, mother of Abbas ibn Ali and a wife of the first Shia Imam
- Fātima bint Mūsā, sister of Ali al-Rida
- Fatima AouamFatima AouamFatima Aouam is a former female middle distance runner from Morocco. She is best known for twice winning the gold medal at the 1987 Mediterranean Games in Latakia, Syria. Aouam set her personal best in the 1,500 m in 1986....
, Moroccan middle distance runner - Fatima BhuttoFatima BhuttoFatima Bhutto born, Fatima Murtaza Bhutto on 29 May 1982, is a Pakistani poet and writer. She is granddaughter of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the niece of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and daughter of Murtaza Bhutto....
, niece of the late, Benazir Bhutto - Fatima de Madrid, astronomer
- Fatima JibrellFatima JibrellFatima Jibrell is a prominent Somali-American environmental activist. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization , co-founder of Sun Fire Cooking, and was instrumental in the creation of the Women’s Coalition for Peace.-Biography:Jibrell...
, Goldman Environmental Prize-winning Somali environmentalist - Fatima JinnahFatima JinnahFatima Jinnah , was one of the figurative and pioneering woman figure in Pakistan Movement and was the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. An active political figure in the movement for independence from the British Raj, she is commonly known in Pakistan as Khātūn-e...
sister of Pakistan's first governor-general, Muhammed Ali Jinnah - Fatima KuinovaFatima KuinovaFatima Kuinova is a Bukharian Jewish Shashmakom singer. She was named "Merited Artist of the Soviet Union".Kuinova was born in Samarqand, Uzbek SSR, but moved to Stalinabad, Tajik SSR with her seven brothers and two sisters when she was thirteen years old, after their father was jailed and...
, Soviet-Bukharan Jewish singer and "Honored Artist of the USSR" - Fatima Moreira de MeloFatima Moreira de MeloFatima Moreira de Melo LL.M. is a Dutch field hockey player. She has played 191 international matches for the Dutch national team, where she has scored 30 times. Her debut match was on 21 October 1997 against Germany which ended in a 2-1 victory for The Netherlands. She plays on the position of...
, Dutch hockey and poker player - Fatima RobinsonFatima RobinsonFatima Robinson is a noted music video director and choreographer. Robinson's choreography résumé includes many Aaliyah's Videos, and Mary J. Blige's "Family Affair"...
, American choreographer - Fatima SiadFatima SiadFatima Siad is a Somali-Ethiopian fashion model. Raised in Boston, Massachusetts, she placed third on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10.-Biography:...
, model - Fatima SilvaFatima SilvaFatima Silva is a female long-distance runner from Portugal. She set her personal best in the marathon in 2002 .-Achievements:-External links:*...
, Portuguese long-distance runner - Fatima WhitbreadFatima WhitbreadFatima Whitbread MBE is a British former javelin thrower and multiple medal-winner.-Early life:...
, British former javelin thrower and multiple medal-winner - Miss FatimaMiss FatimaMiss Fatima was an Indian-British Indian female chess master.Miss Fatima won the British Women's Chess Championship at Hastings in 1933. Earlier, she took 12th place at London 1932 . She was a friend of maharaja Sir Umar Hayat Khan...
, former British Women's Chess Champion. - BluebeardBluebeard"Bluebeard" is a French literary folktale written by Charles Perrault and is one of eight tales by the author first published by Barbin in Paris in January 1697 in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the...
's last wife, by legend, is known as Fatima
Fatimah
- Fatimah bint AmrFatimah bint AmrFatimah bint Amr was the grandmother of Islamic prophet Muhammad, and one of the wives of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim. She was from Quraysh of the Banu Makhzum clan, her co-wives were from outlaying tribes and had relatively little influence in Makkah.Her full name was: Fatimah bint `Amr ibn...
grandmother of MuhammadMuhammadMuhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts... - FatimahFatimahFatimah was a daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from his first wife Khadijah bint Khuwaylid. She is regarded by Muslims as an exemplar for men and women. She remained at her father's side through the difficulties suffered by him at the hands of the Quraysh of Mecca...
, also called "Fatima Zahra" ("Fatima the shining one"), daughter of the Islamic prophet MuhammadMuhammadMuhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts... - Fatimah bint HusaynFatimah bint HusaynFatimah bint Husayn was, according to a Sunni source, the daughter of Umm Ishaq bint Talhah and Husayn ibn Ali. Husayn was the third Shi'a Imam and Umm Ishaq was the daughter of the prominent Muslim general, Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah.*Fatimah *Husayn...
, daughter of Husayn bin Ali - Fatimah bint al-KhattabFatimah bint al-KhattabFatimah bint al-Khattab was the sister of the second Sunni Caliph: Umar. She was married to Sa'id ibn Zayd.- See also :*Fatima *Sahaba...
Fatma
- Fatma Abdulhabib FerejiFatma Abdulhabib FerejiFatma Abdulhabib Fereji is a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania.-Source:* website...
, Tanzanian politician - Fatma AliFatma AliFatma Othman Ali is a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania. She is a member of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party.-References:...
, Tanzanian politician - Fatma EkenoğluFatma EkenogluFatma Ekenoğlu is a Turkish Cypriot politician. She has been President of the Assembly of the de facto independent Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus since 14 January 2004. She is a member of the Republican Turkish Party...
, Turkish Cypriot politician - Fatma GadriFatma GadriFatma Gadir qizi Gadri , also spelled Qadri, Kadri, or Kadry was an Azerbaijani theatre actress.-Career:...
, Azerbaijani theatre actress - Fatma GirikFatma GirikFatma Girik is a Turkish actress and later politician.- Biography :She was born in 1942 in Istanbul. She graduated from "Cağaloğlu Kız Lisesi" in Istanbul. Her first appearance in front of the camera was as a walking lady in the movie "Günahkar Baba" by Arşavir Alyanak...
, Turkish actress and politician - Fatma Koşer KayaFatma Koşer KayaFatma Koşer Kaya is a Dutch lawyer and politician of Turkish origin. As a member of Democrats 66 she has been an MP since September 8, 2004. She focuses on social affairs....
, Dutch politician - Fatma LanouarFatma LanouarFatma Lanouar is a former female middle distance runner from Tunisia. She is best known for twice winning the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in the women's 1500 metres. Lanouar set her personal best in the 1,500 metres in 2000. She was also the silver medallist at the 2001 Jeux de la...
, Tunisian runner - Fatma Neslişah, paternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdülmecid II
- Fatma Salman KotanFatma Salman KotanFatma Salman Kotan is Turkish Member of Parliament for Ağrı of the leading Justice and Development Party.Born in Doğubeyazıt, Ağrı in 1970, Fatma Kotan is an accountant. She graduated in economics from Ataturk University in Erzurum....
, Turkish politician - Fatma SamouraFatma SamouraFatma Samoura, a national of Senegal born in 1962, is a senior United Nations official. Currently , she is he seniormost UN official in Chad....
, United Nations official from Senegal - Fatma-Zohra OukaziFatma-Zohra OukaziFatma-Zohra Oukazi is an Algerian international volleyball player. At club level she made her debut for GS Chlef, based in her home city of Chlef. She now plays for GS Petroliers. She competed for Algeria at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The team lost all five of their group matches and finished...
, Algerian volleyball player
Fictional characters
- Fatima Blush, "Bond girl" from the movie Never Say Never Again
- Fatima Doohan, from the computer game Anachronox
See also
- Eye of Fatima
- Our Lady of FatimaOur Lady of FatimaOur Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...
- Fatima The Gracious (book)Fatima The Gracious (book)Fatima The Gracious is a book written by Shi'a scholar Abu Muhammad Ordoni and published by Ansariyan Publications. The book is a detailed biography of the person with the same name: the daughter of Muhammad, Fatimah Zahra.-External links:* at balagh.net.**...
, a biography of Fatima Zahra - Glossary of Islamic terms in Arabic