Salma
Salma or Salmah is a feminine first name that means "peace" (سلمى) in Arabic. Also a Persian name meaning sweetheart. The name may refer to:
People
By surname or second name (where known), including bint- or Umm-:
- Salma, tribal leader defeated and killed by Muslim army in 632 during the Battle of Zafar, Ridda Wars
- Salma Agha (born 1956), British singer
- Salma Akhter (born 1991), Bangladeshi singer
- Salma Ataullahjan (born 1952), Canadian politician
- Salma bint Abdullah (born 2000), Jordanian princess
- Salma bint Amr, great-grandmother of Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Salma bint Umays, sahaba of Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Salma Hale (1787–1866), American politician
- Salma Hayek (born 1966), Mexican actress
- Salmah Ismail (1935–1983), Singaporean actress and singer
- Salma Jayyusi (born 1926), Palestinian writer
- Salma El Shamma (born 1947), Egyptian TV figure
- Salma Kikwete (born 1963), Tanzanian first lady
- Salma Mumtaz (1926–2012), Pakistani actress
- Salma Rachid (born 1994), Moroccan singer
- Lalla Salma (born 1978), princess consort of Morocco
- Salma Shabana (born 1976), Egyptian squash player
- Salma Sobhan (1937–2003), Bangladeshi lawyer
- Salma Sultan (born 1947), Indian journalist
- Salma Umm-ul-Khair, mother of Abū Bakr
- Salma Yaqoob (born 1971), British politician
- Salma Zahid, Canadian politician
Places
- Salma, Nepal
- Salma, Syria
- Salma Dam, Afghanistan
Other uses
- Salma (1985), an Indian film directed by Ramanand Sagar
- Salma (2013), a documentary directed by Kim Longinotto
- Salma Ya Salama, an Egyptian popular song
- South American Land Mammal Age (SALMA), geologic timescale term
See also
- Selma (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Salma"
- All pages with titles containing Salma
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