Aisha
Americannoun
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a.d. 613?–678, favorite wife of Muhammad (daughter of Abu-Bekr).
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Also Ayesha a first name: from a Swahili word meaning “life.”
noun
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County executive Aisha Braveboy hosted “listening sessions,” emceed by her deputy chief of staff, Devan Martin.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Aisha, not her real name, met her ex-husband on a Muslim dating app during the pandemic and began a whirlwind romance.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Aisha Bakkar is one of several Beirut neighbourhoods that are majority Sunni Muslim, while Lebanon is also home to Christians, Druze and others.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
“If there is a bomb, a war, so what?” said Aisha Katushabe, a Ugandan hostess at a Japanese restaurant in Dubai’s City Walk area, showing off her bravado.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Aisha glanced at Ifemelu, nodding ever so slightly, her face blank, almost forbidding in its expressionlessness.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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