Suha or Soha (
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...
: ''suhā'', ''suhâ''
سُهى; written variant
سُها) is an Arabic female given name literal meaning is "a certain star of a constellation which is transparent, hidden or invisible, It is also called as a star came from heaven ". However, the name also bears the meaning of "young star" or "
moon(s) or
satellite(s)", "hidden planet or star obscured by the view, overlooked, oversight or neglected".
It is also the name of the star
Alcor
ALCOR (ALGOL Converter, acronym) is an early computer language definition created by the ALCOR Group, a consortium of universities, research institutions and manufacturers in Europe and the United States which was founded in 1959 and which had 60 m ...
called "''Suha'' (''al-Suhā, as-Suhā''
السُّهَا)" but bears the meaning "forgotten, neglected, overlooked, distracted". There is an Arab saying possibly related to the name of the star: "''aray-hā 's-suhā wa-turī-nī 'l-Qamar'' (
أريها السها وتريني القمر)" meaning "show her ''as-Suhā'' (the constellation
Alcor
ALCOR (ALGOL Converter, acronym) is an early computer language definition created by the ALCOR Group, a consortium of universities, research institutions and manufacturers in Europe and the United States which was founded in 1959 and which had 60 m ...
) and show me the moon", the correlation to the name of the star used as a metaphor is that "a person beaten by someone who asks about something but was given a distant answer".
And also used as Korean name recently. Around 300 new-born baby has this name, primarily girls. Meaning is related with river because "Ha" is mostly used this Chinese character
河(Korean pronounce : ha) Soha is a Muslim name but Korean people have copied the name into Korean
, which is meaning star
People with the given name Soha or Suha
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Soha Abed Elaal (born 1973), Egyptian athlete
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Soha Ali Khan
Soha Ali Khan Pataudi Khemu (born 4 October 1978) is an Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali and English films. She is the daughter of veteran actress Sharmila Tagore and former Indian cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and t ...
(born 1978), Indian actress
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Soha Bechara (born 1967), Lebanese nationalist
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Soha Hassoun
Soha Hassoun is American computer scientist. She is Professor (since 2015) and Past Chair (2013–2016) of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Hassoun's interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and systems biology. ...
, American computer scientist
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Suha Arafat (born 1963), Former Palestinian Authority President
Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...
's wife
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See also
* ''for articles on persons with this first name''
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Arabic-language feminine given names
Feminine given names