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Zahra

The name Zahra is from Arabic origins for "Shining"

Updated: March 5, 2025
Updated: March 5, 2025

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : Shining, luminous
  • Arabic, Swahili : White; flowers

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from the Arabic female personal name Zahrā’, feminine of Azhar ‘bright’, ‘brilliant’, ‘radiant’. Zahrā’ is an epithet of Fatima, daughter of Muhammad.

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