Zehra (name)

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Zehra (variants: Zerah, Zahra, Zahrah, Zarah, Zara, Zaara, Zohra, Zohrah, Zora, Zorrah) is a female given name, that might have a Swahili,[1] Arabic, Hebrew, Greek,[2] Slavic[3] or English origin (where it may be another form of Sara or Sarah).[4] It means all of the following:

The variant Zara or Zerah or Zarah is also a male first name that occurs in instances within the Bible, including one that may refer to an Egyptian Pharaoh: Osorkon I or Osorkon II; The first part of a male Ethiopian first name, as in Zara Yaqob. Zerah was also a son of Tamar (Gen. 38:30) and a Gershonite Levite (1 Chr. 6:21, 41). The variant Zora is also a male first name, as in the name of Zora Arkus-Duntov, the Belgian-born U.S. engineer. The variant Zaara is an archaic variant of Sahara, both being English transliterations of the original Arabic word for desert.

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