Zahra (name)
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The female given name Zahra corresponds to two different, though related, Arabic words,, pronounced Zahra, meaning bright, shinning, brilliant and, pronounced Zahrah, meaning flower, blossom, or beauty., 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 Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
and Persian empires have expanded the use of these names to Slavic
Slavic peoples
The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...
countries and the Indian subcontinent
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent, Indo-Pak Subcontinent or South Asian Subcontinent is a region of the Asian continent on the Indian tectonic plate from the Hindu Kush or Hindu Koh, Himalayas and including the Kuen Lun and Karakoram ranges, forming a land mass which extends...
, respectively. Zahra is also used as a surname, particularly in Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
.
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:
Female given name
- Fatimah Zahra, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Zahra Khanom Tadj es-SaltanehZahra Khanom Tadj es-SaltanehZahra Khanoum Tadj es-Saltaneh was a Persian princess and memoirist of the Qajar Dynasty, a daughter of Nasser al-Din Shah by his wife Turan es-Saltaneh...
(1883-1936), Persian princess - Zuhra Ramdan Agha Al-AwjiZuhra Ramdan Agha Al-AwjiZuhra Ramdan Agha Al-Awji or "Al-Khowja" originated from Turkey and was of the Turkish people. She was married to Libyan Muslim resistance leader Omar Shegewi and had three children Mohammed Shegewi, Hassan Shegewi and Idris Shegewi....
(active 1920s), Turkish-Libyan educator - Fatma Al-Zahra'Fatma Al-Zahra'Daughter of Zeinab Fahmy and Prince Ali Heidar Shannassi, who was a great-great-great grandchild of Muhammad Ali Pasha through his son Ibrahim Pasha. Noble Fatma Al-Zahra' was known as Fatma Heidar, and that is proven by the initials "FH" in many places of the Royal Jewelry Museum including the...
(born ca. 1910), Egyptian princess - Zohra Begum KaziZohra Begum KaziDr. Zohra Begum Kazi was a Bangladeshi physician. She was the first Bengali Muslim female doctor of India .-Early life and family:Dr. Zohra Begum Kazi, was born on October 15, 1912, at Ranjangaon, Madhya Pradesh. Dr. Kazi has been called the Florence Nightingale of Dhaka.Dr...
(1912-2007), Bangladeshi physician - Zohra Segal (born 1912), Indian actress
- Lalla Fatima ZohraLalla Fatima ZohraLalla Fatima Zohra is the second daughter of Mohammed V of Morocco. In 1961 she was married to Moulay Ali , ambassador of Morocco to France . She has two sons and one daughter: Moulay Youssef, Moulay Abdallah and Lalla Joumana , ambassador of Morocco to Great Britain since 2009.-References:...
(born 1929), Moroccan princess - Zahra FreethZahra FreethZahra Dickson Freeth is a British author, the daughter of H. R. P. Dickson and Dame Violet Dickson , who has written several books on the Middle East....
(born ca. 1930), British writer on Middle Eastern subjects - Zehra Nigah (active since 1950s), Pakistani Urdu poetess
- Zohra DrifZohra DrifZohra Drif Bitat is a retired lawyer and the vice-president of the of the Council of the Nation, the upper house of the Algerian Parliament...
(born 1934), lawyer and member of the Algerian senate - Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known as Assia DjebarAssia DjebarAssia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen , an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers...
(born 1936), Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker - Zohra LampertZohra LampertZohra Lampert is an American actress, who has had roles on film, television and stage. She may be best remembered for her role as the title character in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death, as well as starring alongside Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in the 1961 romance film...
(born 1937), American character actress - Zehra DeovićZehra DeovićZehra Deović is a Bosnian singer most famous for performing sevdalinka songs. She lives and works in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She started working at Radio Sarajevo in 1960.- External links :* * * *...
(born 1938), Bosnian sevdalinka singer - Zahra Mostafavi KhomeiniZahra Mostafavi KhomeiniSayyida Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini is an Iranian politician, and a daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A professor at the University of Tehran, with a PhD in philosophy, she is the Secretary General of Women Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a...
(born ca. 1940), Iranian politician, daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini - Zahra RahnavardZahra RahnavardZahra Rahnavard is an Iranian artist and politician.-Early life:Rahnavard was born in Borujerd, Iran. Her father Haj-Fathali was a Fundamentalist Sh'ia and anti-Communist. After hearing of a gathering of Sh'ia clerics in Iran, Haj-Fathali emigrated to Khomein, Markazi Province where Zahra was born...
(born 1945), Iranian artist and politician - Zahra KazemiZahra KazemiZahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, residing in Montreal, Canada, who died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest....
(1949–2003), Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer - Fatima Zohra KaradjaFatima Zohra KaradjaFatima Zohra Karadja 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 psychology and specialising in working with children affected by trauma...
(born 1949), Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for Northern Africa - Zohra DaoudZohra DaoudZohra Yousuf Daoud is a former Afghan TV celebrity and model now a citizen of United States. In December 1972 Dawoud became the first and only woman to this date ever to be crowned Miss Afghanistan, months before a bloodless coup forced King Zahir Shah into exile...
(born 1954), Afghan actress and model - Zahra Rahmat AllahZahra Rahmat AllahZahra Rahmat Allah is a Yemeni short story writer. She studied English literature at Aden University and worked at Saba, the state news agency. She was also chief editor of the magazine of the Yemeni Women's Union. Her first book of short stories was titled Bidaya Ukhra was published from Sanaa...
(born 1954), Yemeni short story writer - Zahra DowlatabadiZahra DowlatabadiZahra Dowlatabadi is an Iranian filmmaker. She received her Masters degree at USC in Film Studies in 1986. She has been tapped by ASIFA-Hollywood to produce the 39th Annie Awards which will be taking place at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Feb...
(born 1962), Iranian filmmaker - Zahra EshraghiZahra EshraghiZahra Eshraghi is an Iranian feminist and human rights activist. She is the granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami , former head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in Iran.Zahra Eshraghi wants the wearing of headscarves to no longer...
(born ca. 1964), Iranian feminist and human rights activist - Zahra Bahrami (ca. 1965–2011), Dutch/Iranian executed for drug trafficking
- Zahra AbdullaZahra AbdullaZahra Abdulla is a Somali-born Finnish politician. She is a member of the Helsinki City Council, representing the Green League.-Biography:Zahra was born in Somalia in 1966. She spent her early years in Egypt and Kenya....
(born 1966), Somali-Finnish politician - Zahra OuazizZahra OuazizZahra Ouaziz 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 1998, timing 14:40.19...
(born 1969), Moroccan long-distance runner - Sahra WagenknechtSahra WagenknechtSahra Wagenknecht is a German politician. She is a Member of the Bundestag, author, and a member of the National Committee of the Left Party. Since May 2010 she is deputy chairperson of Die Linke.- Early life :...
(born 1969), German politician (with Iranian father) - Zahra Aga Khan (born 1970), Swiss-born princess
- Sahra HausmannSahra HausmannSahra Hausmann is a Norwegian team handball player who played for the club Bækkelagets SK and on the Norway women's national handball team. She received silver medals at the World Women's Handball Championship in 1997, and became European champion in 1998...
(born 1973), Norwegian team handball player - Hindi ZahraHindi ZahraHindi Zahra is a Franco-Moroccan singer . She has a Moroccan mother and a French father. When coming up with a stage name, she simply inverted her birth name Her songs are mostly in English but some lyrics as in the song Imik Si Mik are in the Berber languages.Hindi Zahra grew up with her...
(born 1979), Moroccan pop singer - Zahra BaniZahra BaniZahra Bani is a Somali-Italian javelin thrower.-Biography:In 1989, Bani moved to Torino, Italy from Somalia with her Italian father and Somali mother and started playing volleyball...
(born 1979), Somali-Italian javelin thrower - Zahra Bani YaghoubZahra Bani YaghoubZahra Bani Yaghoub was an Iranian medical doctor, who died unexpectedly in a prison in Hamedan, after she was arrested by the Moral Police...
(1980-2007), Iranian doctor who died in prison - Zahra AhmadiZahra AhmadiZahra Ahmadi is a British actress of Iranian descent.She is best known for her role as Shabnam Masood in the British television series EastEnders from 2007–2008, but soon quit as she thought that her character was not given enough good storylines...
(born 1981), Brtish actress - Zahra Amir EbrahimiZahra Amir EbrahimiZahra Amir Ebrahimi is an Iranian professional photographer, television actress and short movies director.She studied teather in Tehran, and started her professional life with making short movies. She made her first movie when she was only eighteen. She became very popular shortly after her first...
(born 1981), Iranian television actress - 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...
(born 1984), Algerian volleyball player - Fatima Zohra CherifFatima Zohra Cherif-References:*...
(born 1986), Algerian volleyball player - Fatima Zahra DjouadFatima Zahra Djouad-References:*...
(born 1988), Algerian volleyball player - Zohra AyachiZohra AyachiZohra Ayachi is a French footballer. A striker, she currently plays for Paris Saint-Germain in the Division 1 Féminine. Ayachi is a former women's youth international, having played with both the under-17 and under-19 teams. She also played with the France team at 2009 Summer Universiade Games,...
(born 1988), French footballer - Zohra BensalemZohra BensalemZohra Bensalem is an Algerian international volleyball player.-Club information:*Current club : ASW Bejaia*Debut club : ASW Bejaia-References:**...
(born 1990), Algerian volleyball player - Zahra ShojaeiZahra ShojaeiZahra Shojaei is an Iranian politician. An outspoken advocate of women's rights, she was advisor on women's affairs under President Khatami, and as such a member of his cabinet from 1997-2005.-Center for Women's Participation:...
, Iranian politician - Zohra SarwariZohra SarwariZohra Sarwari is a Muslim author, business coach, entrepreneur, and international speaker living in Indiana, USA. She is the author of 10 books,and many E-books. "9 Steps To Achieve Your Destiny" was her first published book.-Biography:...
, Afghan-American author - Zahra Mansouri, Moroccan poet
- Zahra JishiZahra JishiZahra Jishi is a Lebanese-American translator of Arabic literature. Among her translations are:* Where Prophets Are Killed, a collection of three novellas by the Syrian-American author Lotfi Hadad. Co-translator - Reem Salem....
, Lebanese-American translator of Arabic literature - Zahra KamalfarZahra KamalfarZahra 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 his death, she fled the country with her son Davood and daughter Ana. From Turkey, they fled into Russia. From Russia, the family planned...
, Iranian refugee to Canada - Zahra RedwoodZahra RedwoodZahra Redwood is a beauty queen from Jamaica who competed in the Miss Universe 2007 pageant in 2007.Redwood was crowned Miss Jamaica 2007 on 1 April 2007, the first Rastafarian to win the title. She represented Jamaica in the Miss Universe 2007 pageant, held in Mexico City, Mexico on May 28,...
, Jamaican beauty queen - Zahra UniverseZahra UniverseZahra Universe is an American pop singer, pianist, and actress. She was discovered upon auditioning and receiving the lead role in a nation-wide commercial for MeMe2 magazine. She is best known for the pop/R&B singles Drop and Lock Me Up feat. Bossman which were released in 2008 by Arusa Music...
, American pop musician and actress
Surname
- Muhammad Abu ZahraMuhammad Abu ZahraSheikh Muhammad Abu Zahra was a conservative Egyptian public intellectual, traditional scholar of Islamic law and author.Abu Zahra was educated at the Ahmadi Madrasa, the Madrasa al-Qada al-Shari and the Dar al-Ulum. He taught at al-Azhar's faculty of theology and later, as professor of Islamic...
(1898–1974), Egyptian scholar of Islamic law and author - Brian K. ZahraBrian K. ZahraBrian K. Zahra is a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.Zahra attended Wayne State University and worked his way through by opening a health and beauty-aid store in downtown Detroit, which he expanded into a full grocery store. He subsequently graduated from the University of Detroit School of...
(born ca. 1960), American judge - Christian ZahraChristian ZahraChristian John Zahra , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from October 1998 to October 2004, representing the seat of McMillan, Victoria. He was born in Malta, and was educated at La Trobe University...
(born 1973), Maltese-Australian politician - Julie ZahraJulie ZahraJulie Ann Zahra was born in Malta in 1982. She is a classically trained singer who has been actively involved in music from a very young age. Julie took part in many local and international festivals, TV drama, Music videos and theatre. She has also represented her country in the Eurovision Song...
(born 1982), Maltese singer - Adrian ZahraAdrian ZahraAdrian Zahra is an Australian football player who plays for Melbourne Heart in the A-League. He started his senior career with Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League, before signing with the Heart in 2010 – one of many Heart players to come through the Victorian leagues up to the top...
(born 1990), Australian footballer (of Maltese descent) - Scott Zahra, Australian rugby league player
- Antoine Zahra (disambiguation)Antoine Zahra (disambiguation)Antoine Zahra may refer to:*Antoine Zahra , Lebanese Maronite political figure who, in 2005, was elected as Lebanese Forces party Member of Parliament representing Batroun district; re-elected in 2009 legislative elections...
, several people
See also
- Abdul ZahraAbdul ZahraAbdul Zahra is a male Arabic given name. It may refer to*Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed, alternate name of Ezzedine Salim , Iraqi politician*Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim , Iraqi politico-religious activist...
, Arabic male name - Sarah (given name), female name of Hebrew origin
- ZaraZara-Places:*Zara, Turkey, district in the Turkish province of Sivas Province *Zara, Italian, Venetian, German and Hungarian name of the Adriatic port city of Zadar , former capital of Dalmatia, today in Croatia*Zara, Tibet, village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China*Zara ,...
, female given name - ZerahZerahZerah or Zérach refers to five different people in the Hebrew Bible.-The Cushite:...
, male given name occuring in the Hebrew Bible