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Fātima was originally an Arabic name, meaning "She who weans", being a title of a single proven living girl of Prophet Muhammad; fallowing the advent of Islam it became a most common Muslim name for women. These are besides utilized (when shortened to Ma (馬)) as a most common cognomen for Chinese Muslims. These are periodically utilized by Catholics in connection with the important twentieth-century apparition of the Virgin Mary in the town of Fátima in Portugal.
A title might diversely refer to:
Fatima Zahra, daughter of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam;
Fatemeh, a transliteration of the Persian pronunciation of the Arab name
a town of Fátima in Portugal
Our Lady of Fatima, a Catholic Church-approved apparition of the Virgin Mary at Fátima, Portugal in 1917
Fatima Jinnah (1893 - 1967) was the sister of Pakistan's 1st governor-general, Muhammed Ali Jinnah.
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