Fatima
noun
a.d. 606?–632, daughter of Muhammad and wife of Ali.
Fatima
1 American
[fat-uh-muh, fah-tee-mah]
/ ˈfæt ə mə, ˈfɑ tiˌmɑ /
noun
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a.d. 606?–632, daughter of Muhammad and wife of Ali.
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the seventh and last wife of Bluebeard, popularly a symbol for feminine curiosity.
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a female given name.
Fátima
2
American
[fah-ti-muh]
/ ˈfɑ tɪ mə /
noun
Fátima
1
British
/ ˈfatimə /
noun
Fatima
2
British
/ ˈfætɪmə /
noun
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Fatima Mansouri made history last month by becoming Morocco’s first female prime minister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"If the government is to cut the Youth Parliament there should be reasons and there has to be alternatives, even if the funding is tight," Aman Fatima, MYP for Essex, told BBC Politics East.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Fatima Emar, Mohammed's wife, says that the family had originally erected tents after the houses they had built in 2023 were destroyed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The strategists, led by Fatima Boolani, pointed to the company’s expectation of high growth in the second half of the year, with a boosted forecast of about a 34% increase in ARR.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Fatima held up a blue package of cookies.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
Ms. Koval expressed hope that Francis would use his Fátima visit to pray for them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
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
There an AP reporter found Maria de Fátima da Costa, 60, knee-deep in the river, cleaning a wooden plank.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 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
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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