Zahra (name)#Part of the female given name Fatimah Zahra

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| meaning = Flower, blossom; splendor, beauty; brightness,princess radiance{{cite book |last1=Wehr |first1=Hans |title=The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic |page=446 |edition=4th |url=https://ejtaal.net/aa/#hw4=459,ll=1304,ls=5,la=1877,sg=487,ha=310,br=430,pr=71,aan=247,mgf=398,vi=180,kz=1029,mr=294,mn=588,uqw=725,umr=465,ums=394,umj=342,ulq=874,uqa=177,uqq=140,bdw=h402,amr=h283,asb=h424,auh=h702,dhq=h238,mht=h388,msb=h105,tla=h56,amj=h329,ens=h1,mis=h930}}

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| related names = Zahrah, Zehra, Sahra, Zara, Zarya, Zaira

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Zahra (Arabic: زهراء) is a female given name and surname.

Among Arabs, the name became popularized as a result of being the name of Muhammad’s daughter, Fatimah al-Zahra.[http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13910221000065 What is the secret of Fatimah al-Zahra's names?] www.farsnews.com

The name was also popularized by the Persian empire's influence in the Indian subcontinent, respectively.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} Zahra is also used as a surname, particularly in Malta.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

The names are may be transliterated in various ways, such as Zehra in Turkish language, Zahra(h), Zara, Zuhra, Zahraa and Zohrah.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

In the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire expanded the use of this name to countries like Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The is popular among Bosniaks in the former Yugoslav nations and it is written as Zehra with one of the most famous bearers in the region being Zehra Deović. Recently, the name has become popular once again in the form of Zara, becoming one of the most popular girls' names in Bosnia and Herzegovina.https://namerology.com/baby-name-atlas/most-popular-girls-names-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/

Female given name

=Zahra=

Zahra Abdulla (born 1966), Somali-Finnish politician
Zahra Abrahimzadeh, mother of Arman Abrahimzadeh, murdered by her husband
Zahra Foundation, named after her
Zahra Ahmadi (born 1983), British actress
Zahra Airall, women's rights activist
Zahra Alzubaidi, Iraqi film actress and musician
Khalub Zahra, was the mother of the 10th-century caliph of Baghdad al-Muttaqi (r. 940–944).
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (born 1981), Iranian television actress
Zahra Bahrami (c. 1965–2011), Dutch/Iranian executed for drug trafficking
Zahra Baker, Australian murder victim
Zahra Bani (born 1979), Somali-Italian javelin thrower
Zahra Bani Yaghoub (1980–2007), an Iranian doctor who died in prison
Zohra Bensalem (born 1990), Algerian volleyball player
Zahra Dowlatabadi (born 1962), Iranian filmmaker
Zahra Eshraghi (born c. 1964), Iranian feminist and human rights activist
Zahra Freeth (1924 or 1925–2015), a British writer on Middle Eastern subjects
Zahra Jishi, Lebanese-American translator of Arabic literature
Zahra Kamalfar, Iranian refugee to Canada
Zahra Kazemi (1949–2003), Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer
Zahra Aga Khan (born 1970), Swiss-born princess
Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883–1936), a Persian princess
Zahra' Langhi, Libyan gender specialist, civil society strategist and political activist
Zahra Lari, Emirati figure skater
Zahra Mansouri, Moroccan poet
Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini (born c. 1940), Iranian politician, daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini
Zahra Rahmat Allah (born 1954), Yemeni short story writer
Zahra Rahnavard (born 1945), Iranian artist and politician
Zahra Ouaziz (born 1969), Moroccan long-distance runner
Zahra Rahimi, Iranian para taekwondo practitioner
Zahra Redwood, Jamaican beauty queen
Zahra Shojaei, Iranian politician
Zahra Universe, American musician and actress
Zahra Hankir, Lebanese-British writer and journalist

=Zehra=

==Given name==

Ada Zehra Anlatıcı (born 2007), Turkish swimmer with Down syndrome
Zehra Bilgin (born 2002), Turkish Olympian swimmer
Zehra Bilir (1913–2007), Turkish folk singer
Zehra Borazancı (born 1989), Turkish Cypriot women's footballer
Zehra Çırak (born 1960), Turkish-German writer
Zehra Deović (1938–2015), Bosnian sevdalinka singer
Zehra Fazal (born 1986), South Asian-American voice actresses
Zehra Güneş (born 1999), Turkish volleyball player
Zehra Kaya (born 2004), Turkish karateka
Zehra Khan (born 1983), American artist
Zehra Nigah, Pakistani Urdu poet
Zehra Öktem (born 1959), Turkish archer
Zehra Say (1906–1990), Turkish painter
Zehra Sayers (born 1953), Turkish scientist in structural biology
Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk (born 1979), Turkish politician
Zehra Topel (born 1987), Turkish international chess master

==Middle name==

Belkıs Zehra Kaya (born 1984), Turkish judoka

=Other variant spellings of female given name=

Sahra Hausmann (born 1973), Norwegian team handball player
Sahra Wagenknecht (born 1969), German politician (with Iranian father)
Zohre Esmaeli (born 1985), Afghan model, designer and author
Zuhra Ramdan Agha Al-Awji (active 1920s), Turkish-Libyan educator

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Fatimah was the daughter of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and is greatly revered by Muslims, often under the extended name Fatimah az-Zahra' , {{lang|ar|فاطمة الزهراء}}, or Fatimah Zahra' , {{lang|ar|فاطمة زهراء}}. This has then been used as a female given name.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Fatima Al Zahraa Haider (born ca. 1910), an Egyptian princess
Fatima Zahra Hafdi, known as La Zarra, Canadian-Moroccan singer
Lalla Fatima Zohra (1929–2014), Moroccan princess
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known as Assia Djebar (1936–2015), Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker
Fatima Zohra Karadja (born 1949), Algerian, Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for Northern Africa
Fatma-Zohra Oukazi (born 1984), Algerian volleyball player
Fatima Zahra Djouad (born 1988), Algerian volleyball player