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Thread #103975   Message #2124887
Posted By: Azizi
13-Aug-07 - 08:55 PM
Thread Name: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
Subject: RE: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
KUDOS!!! to Q. {Why am I not surprised that he knew this answer?}

Here's some information about the Ayesha novels by Victorian author H. Rider Haggard, novels which I confess I have not yet read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha_(novel)

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Also, here's some info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha

Ayesha can refer to:

Ayesha (name)
Ayesha (novel), a 1905 novel by Henry Rider Haggard; the main evil character, "Ayesha" figures in a series of novels, of which this is one
Ayesha Takia, a Bollywood actress
Aisha, the wife of the prophet Mohammed
Ayesha (woreda), a district in Ethiopia; and
Ayesha, Ethiopia, a town in that district

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Wikipedia's page on the etymology of the name Ayesha provides this information:

"The girl's name Ayesha is of different originalities, In Persian its meaning is "womanly". It also means sporty, active. 'Ayesha' also means beautiful, or life in Arabic. 'Ayesha' is also sometimes misspelled 'Aisha', which is a different name altogether, meaning "she who lives" in Arabic. In Bosnian it is spelled Aiša. Ayesha is a common female first name, in countries such as the United States, where it was ranked 2020 out of 4275 for females of all ages in the 1990 US Census. The same survey found that Ayesha is a rare surname and it was not ranked for people of all ages."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha_%28name%29