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Fatima (Arabic: فَاطِمَة, Fāṭimah), also spelled Fatimah, is a feminine 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. The literal meaning of the name is one who weans an infant or one who abstains. [3] [4]
The name stems from the Arabic verb ḥabba (حَبَّ), meaning to "love", "admire, be fond of".. Another variant which is used as a given name and adjective of the stem from that verb is "maḥbūb" (مَحْبُوب) meaning "well-beloved", commonly written as Mahbub, the female equivalent Mahbuba (Arabic: maḥbūbah مَحْبُوبَة).
Islamic traditional use of the name goes back to the Islamic leader Ali ibn Abi Talib, but the name is also present among some pre-Islamic Arabs (e.g. Banu Hanifa, and some rulers of Saba and Himyar). It is identical in form and meaning to the Hebrew: עֵלִי, Eli, which goes back to the High Priest Eli in the biblical Books of Samuel.
Muhammad (name) Muhammad ( Arabic: مُحَمَّد, romanized : Muḥammad ), also spelled Muhammed, Muhamad, Mohammad, Mohammed, Mahammad, Maxammed, Mehemmed, Mohamad, Mohamed, or in a variety of other ways, is an Arabic given male name meaning 'praiseworthy'. The name comes from the passive participle of the Arabic verb ḥammada ...
Malik, Maleek, Malek or Malyk (Arabic: مَالِك or مَلِك) (Urdu & (): مالک) (/ ˈ m æ l ɪ k /) is a given name of Semitic origin. [1] It is both used as first name and surname originally mainly in Western Asia by Semitic speaking Christians, Muslims and Jews of varying ethnicities, before spreading to countries in the Caucasus, South Asia, Central Asia, North Africa and ...
Yahya ( Arabic: يحيى, romanized : Yaḥyā ), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name. It is an [ a] Arabic form of the given name John, originally Aramaic Yohanan ( Yəhôḥānān יְהוֹחָנָן " YHWH is gracious"), i.e. primarily John the Baptist, who is known as Yahya ibn Zakariyya in Islam, and is considered a ...
Muslim ( Arabic: مُسْلِم muslim ), also transliterated as Moslem or Müslüm ( Turkish ), is an Arabic male given name meaning 'pure, clear, immaculate, clean, taintless, straight, absolute', 'devout, god-fearing, pious, complaisant, obedient, submissive', 'virtuous, chaste, modest, blameless, innocent'. It is also the proper name for ...
Ibrahim (anglicized as Ibraheem) ( Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm) is the Arabic name of the prophet and patriarch Abraham and one of Allah's messengers in the Quran. It is a common male first name and surname among Muslims and Arab Christians, a cognate of the name Abraham or Avram in Judaism and Christianity in the Middle East.