Amira (name)
Amira (also spelled Emira or Ameera) Amirah (Arabic: أميرة) (Hebrew: אֲמִירָה ) is an Arabic female given name, meaning "princess",[1] and a Hebrew female given name, meaning 'treetop' or 'saying'.[2]
Variant forms include: Emira, Ameera, Ameerah, Amirah, and Meera.
Usage
It is a very common name in North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia like in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and in India.
First name / given name
- Amira Ben Amor, Tunisian long-distance runner
- Amira Ben Chaabane, Tunisian sabre fencer
- Amira Bennison, aka Kate Bennison, British historian of the Middle East,
- Amira Casar, French actress
- Amira Dotan, Israeli military figure, politician, former member of Knesset
- Amira Edrahi, Libyan swimmer
- Amira El Fadil (born 15 January, 1967), Sudanese government official
- Amira Griselda Gómez, Mexican politician
- Amira Hass, Israeli journalist and author
- Amira Hess, Iraqi-born Israeli poet and artist
- Amira Medunjanin, female singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Amira Nowaira, Egyptian academic, translator, columnist and author
- Amira Sartani, Israeli politician, former member of Knesset
- Amira Selim, Egyptian soprano and opera singer
- Amira Willighagen, Dutch singer
- Amira Yoma (born 1952), Argentina political advisor and restaurateur
- Amirah Vann, American actress
- Ameera al-Taweel, Saudi Arabian princess
- Ameerah Haq, Bangladeshi diplomat
Fictional characters
- Amira Masood, also Shah, fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
Middle name
- Khalil Amira El-Maghrabi, Egyptian boxer
Surname
- Efraim Amira, Israeli football (soccer) player
- Ibn Amira, or Ahmad ibn Abd Allah Ibn Amira, the 12th-century historian, poet, and scholar of law from al-Andalus during the reign of the Almohad dynasty
gollark: guys, what if lemmmy *is* yemmel?
gollark: Once PotatOS for x86 is installed on Terra's server, it will use my arbitrary code execution exploit in *string theory* to teleport the server to my house, where it will then run Minecraft for me.
gollark: "I'm bad, but other people are worse! Ignore me and complain at them!"
gollark: Soon the dead-man's switch in the bunker will trigger and disassemble Terra's bunker, then most of itself, then use an arbitrary code execution exploit in Minecraft to install PotatOS for x86 on all Terra's devices, then it will crash TC2020 forever.
gollark: I built a bunker there and everything. Well, half a bunker. I haven't finished the self-replication systems.
See also
- Amir (name)
- Amira (disambiguation)
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