Zehra (variants: Zerah, Zechra, 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,[5] or to blossom[6]
- radiance,[7] brilliant, bright[8] or fair[9]
- dawn[3] or bright as the dawn [2]
- princess[2]
- the colour white[10]
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) and 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.
Zahra is a popular Maltese family name.
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People with the name Zehra or its variants
- Zehra Deović
- Fatimah Zahra, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- 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
- Zahra Freeth, British writer on Middle Eastern subjects
- Athrun Zala, 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
- Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer
- Zara Sheikh, Pakistani model and actress
- Zohra Lampert, American character actress
- Zohra Daoud, former Afghani, actress and model
- Zohra Segal, British Indian actress
- Zohra Drif, retired lawyer and longtime senior member of the Algerian senate
- Zohra Nigah, Pakistani Urdu poetess
- Zohra Bellahsene, Professor in Computer Science at the University of Montpellier II, and author of various books
- Zora Andrich, American model and actress
- Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-born U.S. engineer
Places with 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
Other references to the name Zehra or its variants
- Zora, a fictional race in The Legend of Zelda series of video games
- 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 (clothing), the flagship chain store for the Spanish Inditex Group
- Archdiocese of Zara, located in Dalmatia, a diocese since A.D. 381 and since 1146 an archdiocese
- The Italian cruiser Zara
- The Zara class cruiser
- 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
See also
- List of peoples
- List of adjectival forms of place names
- Most popular given names
- Unisex name
- Arabic Name
References
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