Fatima

Fat·i·ma

[fat-uh-muh, fah-tee-mah]
noun
1.
a.d. 606?–632, daughter of Muhammad and wife of Ali.
2.
the seventh and last wife of Bluebeard, popularly a symbol for feminine curiosity.
3.
a female given name.
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Fá·ti·ma

[fah-ti-muh]
noun
a village in central Portugal, N of Lisbon: Roman Catholic shrine.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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Fatima (ˈfætɪmə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
?606--632 ad daughter of Mohammed; wife of Ali

Fátima (Portuguese ˈfatimə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a village in central Portugal: Roman Catholic shrine and pilgrimage centre

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