Latifa Explained

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

Notes and References

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