Fatima (given name)

Fatima (Arabic: فَاطِمَة‎, Fāṭimah) is a female 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.[3][4]

Fatima
PronunciationArabic: [faːtˤɪmaː]
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameArabic
Meaningone who weans an infant or
one who abstains [1][2]
Other names
Related namesFatimah, Fadumo, Fadime, Fatma, Fatme, Fatemeh, Fathama, Fadma, Fatna, Fatim, Fotima

The colloquial Arabic pronunciation of the name in some dialects (e.g., Syrian and Egyptian) often omits the unstressed second syllable and renders it as Fatma when romanized. Coincidentally, this is also the usual Turkish and Azerbaijani form of the name (another variant, Fadime, is less common). In Persian, the name is rendered as Fatemeh in the Iranian dialect, Fatima in Afghan dialect and Fotima (Фотима) in Tajik.

Fatima is also used by non-Muslims: the town of Fátima, 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 Catholic populations, particularly in the Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds.

Variations

This name has a lot of variations in different languages. The Turkish and Azeri transliteration of the name is either Fatma or Fadime. In Somali the name became Fadumo. Fadma It is Faḍma in Kabyle. Spelled as Fátima, the name is also common amongst Spanish and especially Portuguese speaking peoples in Iberia as well as in the Americas. Due to the Berber influence on Moroccan Arabic, other variations exist in Morocco, such as Fatna, Fadma, Fettoosh, Fattoom.

Fatimah
  • Fatimah, also called "Fatima Zahra" ("Fatima the shining one"), daughter of Prophet Muhammad
  • Fatimah Abdullah, Malaysian politician
  • Fatimah Baeshen, Saudi Arabian government official
  • Fatimah Baraghani, better known as Táhirih, influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran
  • Fatimah bint Amr, grandmother of Muhammad
  • Fatimah 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
  • Fatimah bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn bin Ali
  • Fatimah bint Hizam, the second wife of Ali, cousin of Muhammad
  • Fatimah bint al-Khattab, sister of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and an early follower of Muhammad
  • Fatimah bint Musa, daughter of Musa al-Kadhim and sister of Ali al-Ridha, two of the Twelve Imams
  • Fatimah binte Sulaiman, Singaporean merchant and philanthropist
  • Fatimah Busu, Malaysian novelist, short-story writer, and academic.
  • Fatimah Hashim, Malaysian cabinet minister
  • Fatimah Jackson, American biologist and anthropologist
  • Fatimah Lateef, Singaporean politician and member of the People's Action Party
  • Fatimah Rohani binti Ismail, known professionally as Emma Maembong, a Malaysian actress and model
  • Sayyida Fatimah el-Sharif (1911–2009), queen consort of King Idris of the Kingdom of Libya
  • Fatimah Tuggar, Nigerian multimedia artist

Fátima

Fatemeh
  • Fatemeh Javadi, conservative politician and Vice President of Iran, 2005 – 2009
  • Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, former parliament deputy, member of opposition party based in US, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Fatemeh Homayounieh, researcher and scientist, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts

Fatimeh

Fatima

Fatma

Fadime

See also
  • Eye of Fatima
  • Fatima The Gracious (book), a biography of Fatima Zahra
  • Glossary of Islamic terms in Arabic

References
  1. Sue Browder (1997). The New Age Baby Name Book. Workman Publishing. p. 101. ISBN 9780761102328.
  2. Teresa Norman (2003). A World of Baby Names. The Berkley Publishing Group. p. 11. ISBN 9780399528941.
  3. The biography of Hazrat Fatimah (a.s.) yjc.ir Retrieved 6 Oct 2018
  4. Who is Hazrat Fatimah (a.s.)? porseman.org
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