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  • Fatima
    Fatima
    noun
    a.d. 606?–632, daughter of Muhammad and wife of Ali.
  • Fátima
    Fátima
    noun
    a village in central Portugal, N of Lisbon: Roman Catholic shrine.

Fatima

1 American  
[fat-uh-muh, fah-tee-mah] / ˈfæt ə mə, ˈfɑ tiˌmɑ /

noun

  1. a.d. 606?–632, daughter of Muhammad and wife of Ali.

  2. the seventh and last wife of Bluebeard, popularly a symbol for feminine curiosity.

  3. a female given name.


Fátima 2 American  
[fah-ti-muh] / ˈfɑ tɪ mə /

noun

  1. a village in central Portugal, N of Lisbon: Roman Catholic shrine.


Fátima 1 British  
/ ˈfatimə /

noun

  1. a village in central Portugal: Roman Catholic shrine and pilgrimage centre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Fatima 2 British  
/ ˈfætɪmə /

noun

  1. ?606–632 ad daughter of Mohammed; wife of Ali

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Auntie Fatima was right: Goodies rock, especially because the winning team got to divvy up and take the leftovers home.

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For the Arlington delegation, it will begin with two days at the Shrine at Fátima, where in 1917 three youngsters reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

We went to Fátima and participated in a Mass with what looked like more than 100,000 people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

The demoralization was on display this month during the celebration of Our Lady of Fátima, a major Catholic holiday.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

Its particular configuration of carbon and fluorine is “really stable and will be really persistent in the environment,” says University of Porto researcher Maria de Fátima Carvalho, a co-author of the new paper.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2022

Thus he writes Sura, Amína, Fátima, Madína, Taháma; yet, inconsistently enough, he gives the h' in Allah, Khadijah, Kaabah, Makkah, and many other words.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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