Latifa

This article is about the name. For other uses, see Latifa (disambiguation).

Latifa, Lateefa or Lateefah is a feminine Arabic (لٓطِيفٓة) given name which means "gentle",[1] "nice" or "pleasant".[2] It corresponds to the masculine Latif.

Notable persons

Lateefa(h)

• Lateefa Al Gaood, Bahraini politician
• Lateefah Durosinmi (born 1957), Nigerian academic
• Lateefah Simon, American activist

Latifa

• Latifa (singer), or Latifa Arfaoui, Tunisian pop music singer
• Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt, Egyptian princess
• Latifa Baka, Moroccan author
• Latifa Elouadrhiri, Moroccan physicist
• Princess Lalla Latifa, widow of king Hassan II
• Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, UAE princess
• Latifa Ben Mansour, Algerian writer and linguist
• Latifa bint Fahd Al Saud, Saudi royal
• Latifa al-Zayyat, Egyptian activist and writer

Latifah

• Queen Latifah, American rapper, singer, and actress

Sufi psychology

• Lataif-e-Sitta, special perception organs in Sufi spiritual psychology, for example Latifa Qalabiya

See also

• Latife, the Turkish form of the name

References

1. Judith Rosenhouse (Spring 2002). "Personal Names in Hebrew and Arabic: Modern Trends Compared to the Past". Journal of Semitic Studies. 47 (1): 106. doi:10.1093/jss/47.1.97.
2. ""لٓطِيفٓة": examples and translations in context". dictionary.reverso.net. Retrieved 4 November 2023.