Zehra (name)
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Zehra (variants: Zerah, Zahra, Zahrah, Zarah, Zara, Zaara, Zohra, Zohrah, Zora, Zorrah) is a female given name, that might have a Swahili[1], Arabic, Hebrew, Greek[2], Slavic[3] or English origin (where it may be another form of Sara or Sarah)[4]. It means all of the following:
- a flower or a blooming flowrer[5], or to blossom [6]
- radiance[7], brilliant, bright, [8] or fair[9]
- dawn[10] or bright as the dawn [11]
- princess [12]
- the colour white[13]
The variant Zara or Zerah or Zarah is also a male first name that occurs in instances within the Bible, including one that may refer to an Egyptian Pharaoh: Osorkon I or Osorkon II; The first part of a male Ethiopian first name, as in Zara Yaqob. Zerah was also a son of Tamar (Gen. 38:30) & a Gershonite Levite (1 Chr. 6:21, 41). The variant Zora is also a male first name, as in the name of Zora Arkus-Duntov, the Belgian-born U.S. engineer. The variant Zaara is an archaic variant of Sahara, both being English transliterations of the original Arabic word for desert.
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[edit] Famous People In History Having The Name Zehra (or its variants)
- Fatimah Zahra, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad {صلاواة الله عليه و آله}
- Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker
- Zahra Kazemi, Iranian (Persian)-born freelance photographer
- Fatima Zohra Karadja, Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for Northern Africa
- Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne
- Zara Lockwood [1] & [2]
- Asuran Zara, one of the main characters from the anime series Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny
- Zara Cully, American character actress
- Zara Whites, Dutch porn actress
- Zora Neale Hurston, American folklorist and author
- Zahra Zuhair, Middle Eastern Dancer [3]
- Zarah Pacheco, American bikini model [4]
- Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer
- Zara Sheikh, Pakistani model and actress
- Zohra Lampert, American character actress
- Zohra Daoud, former Afghani, actress & model [5]
- Zohra Segal, British Indian actress [6]
- Zohra Drif, retired lawyer and longtime senior member of the Algerian senate
- Zohra Nigah, Pakistani Urdu Poetess
- Zohra Boukhari, Moroccan-born Interior Decorator[7]
- Zohra Ben Lakhdar, Professor of Physics at the University of Tunis, Tunisia & 2005 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award Laureate for Africa [8]
- Zohra Bellahsene, Professor in Computer Science at the University of Montpellier II, and authour of various books [9]
- Zora Andrich, American model and actress
- Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-born U.S. engineer
- Zora Lansen, German musician, [10]
- Zarah Hussain, British Painter/Artist [11]
[edit] Places Having The Name Zehra (or its variants)
- Žehra is a village and municipality in the Spišská Nová Ves District in the Košice Region of central-eastern Slovakia
- Zara, the Italian name of the Adriatic port city of Zadar (official 13th-20th century), former capital of Dalmatia, in Croatia
- Zara (Turkish district), a district in the Turkish province of Sivas
- Zara, Eritrea, a city in central-western Eritrea.
[edit] Other Refrences To The Name Zehra (or its variants)
- The Zoras, a fictional race from The Legend of Zelda video game
- Literary references to the deserts of Zaara
- Zaara Haayat Khan, lead character in the Yash Chopra Hindi / Urdu film Veer-Zaara
- Zahrah, main character of Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu's debut children's novel Zahrah the Windseeker
- Zara, the flagship chain store for the Spanish Inditex Group
- Archdiocese of Zara [12], located in Dalmatia, a diocese since A.D. 381 and since 1146 an archdiocese
- Zara Mart, leading supplier of kippot, tallit, Judaica and Israeli gift items [13]
- Zara Investment (Holding) Co. Ltd., Jordanian travel company [14]
- Zara Spook, a type of fishing lure
- The Italian cruiser Zara
- The Zara class cruiser
- Zora Flora, florist for East Grinstead, Edenbridge, Forest Row, Gatwick Airport, Godstone, Lingfield & Oxted [15]
- Zara Media, a creative services firm [16]
- Zohra 2: the New Queen & Zohra: The Planet of Truth and Knowledge, novels by Joseph Palazzo ([17] & [18] respectively)
- Zohra's Ladder: And Other Stories from Morocco, novel by Pamela Windo [19]
- Zora, a 3D graphical multi-user environment for children [20]
- ZORA short for Zurich Open Repository and Archive, provides open and worldwide access to the research and scholarly output of the University of Zurich, Switzerland [21]
[edit] See Also
- List of peoples
- List of adjectival forms of place names
- Most popular given names
- List of unusual personal names
- Unisex name
- Arabic Name
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