Basma (name)

Besma and its variants Basmah, Basma, Basima, Bassima, Basimah, and Basemah are Arabic words which are used as a feminine given name and a surname. Its adjective form means "smile" in Arabic.^[1] People with the name include:

Given name

Bassima (born 1973), Lebanese singer
Basma Abdel Aziz (born 1976), Egyptian psychiatrist and human rights activist
Basima Abdulrahman, Kurdish-Iraqi engineer
Basimah Aziz Nasir, Iraqi politician
Bassima Hakkaoui (born 1960), Moroccan politician
Basma Khalfaoui (born 1970), Tunisian lawyer and political activist
Basmah bint Saud Al Saud (born 1964), Saudi royal
Basemah al-Shater (1959–2023), Syrian Major General
Basma bint Talal (born 1951), Jordanian royal
Basimah Yusuf Butrus (born 1963), Iraqi Assyrian politician

Surname

Christer Basma (born 1972), Norwegian football player
Kassim Basma (born 1960), Sierra Leonean businessman
Muhsen Basma (born 1966), Syrian football referee

References

↑ Omnia H. Zayed; Samhaa R. EI Beltagy (2012). "Person Name Extraction from Modem Standard Arabic or Colloquial Text" (Conference paper). IEEE Xplore. pp. NLP–44-NLP-48.

[1] Omnia H. Zayed; Samhaa R. EI Beltagy (2012). "Person Name Extraction from Modem Standard Arabic or Colloquial Text" (Conference paper). IEEE Xplore. pp. NLP–44-NLP-48.

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