Fatima (given name)
Fatima (, ), also spelled Fatimah, is a female 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". The colloquial Arabic pronunciation of the name in some varieties (e.g., Syrian and Egyptian) often omits the unstressed second syllable and renders it as "Fatma" when romanized. Incidentally, this is also the usual Turkish and Azerbaijani form of the name (another variant, Fadime, is less  common). In Persian, the name is rendered as "Fatemeh" in the Iranian dialect, "Fatima" in Afghan dialect and "Fotima" (Фотима) in Tajik dialect. Fatima is also used by non-Muslims: the town of Fátima, Portugal was named after a Moorish princess. It was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholic populations, particularly in the Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking worlds. Variations. This name has a lot of variations in different languages. The Turkish and Azerbaijani transliteration of the name is either "Fatma" or "Fadime . In Somali the name became Fadumo". It is "Faḍma" in Kabyle. Spelled as "Fátima", the name is also common amongst Spanish and especially Portuguese speaking peoples in Iberia as well as in the Americas. Due to the Berber influence on Moroccan Arabic, other variations exist in Morocco, such as Fatna, Fadma, Fettoosh, Fattoom.