Hafsa

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Pronunciation Arabic: [ħaːfsˁa] Word/name Arabic Related names Hafza, Hafiza		Gender female Meaning young lioness

Hafsa (Arabic: حفصة‎‎, very often confused with Hafza and Hafiza, but all three of them are different names. Hafsa is an Arabic female given name. It means "young lioness".

People

Hafsa bint Umar, daughter of Umar ibn al-Khattab and wife of Muhammad.

Hafsa Bint al-Hajj al-Rukuniyya (d. 1190/91), Andalusian poet.

Hafsa Hatun Sultan (1479-1534), Ottoman Sultan Selim I's wife and the mother of Süleyman the Magnificent.

Hafsa Bikri, Iraqi-Moroccan poet.

Hafsa Şeyda Burucu (born 1991), Turkish karateka.

Hafsat Abiola (b. 1974), a Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist.

References

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