Amira (name)

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Amira (also spelled Emira or Ameera) Amirah (Arabic: أميرة) (Hindi: अमीरा) (Hebrew: אֲמִירָה ) is an Arabic female given name, meaning "princess",^[1] a Hindi name meaning “princess” or “high born girl,” (derived from Arabic) ^[2] and a Hebrew female given name, meaning 'treetop' or 'saying'.^[3]

Variant forms include: Emira, Ameera, Ameerah, Amirah, and Meera.

Usage[]

The name sees usage mainly in North Africa, West Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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
• Amirah Inglis (1926-2015), Australian communist and writer
• Amira Medunjanin, female singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Amira Nowaira, Egyptian academic, translator, columnist and author
• Amira Rasheed, American singer
• 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

See also[]

• Amir (name)
• Amira (disambiguation)

References[]

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