• Source: Zuleika (given name)

Zuleika is a given name for females. Spelling variations include Zuleikha, Zulaikha, Zuleyka, Zuleica, Züleyha and Zuleykha. The name is of uncertain origin, possibly from Persian, meaning "brilliant beauty", or from Arabic, meaning "bright and fair".




People


Zulaikha Abu Risha (born 1942), Jordanian poet and activist
Zuleika Alambert (1922–2012), Brazilian writer, feminist and politician
Zuleika Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (born 1939), Armenian painter
Zuleikha Chaudhuri, Indian 21st-century theatre director
Zulekha Daud (fl. 1964–present), Indian physician and entrepreneur
Zuleika Fuentes (born 1993), Puerto Rican handball player
Zuzu Angel, born Zuleika Angel Jones (1921–1976), Brazilian fashion designer and activist
Zulaikha Patel (born c. 2002), a South African girl who became a symbol of the fight against school policies about black girls' hair
Zuleyka Rivera (born 1987), Puerto Rican actress
Zuleikha Robinson (born 1977), British actress
Zuleykha Safarova (born 1999), Azerbaijani tennis player
Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (1919–1999), one of the first Azerbaijan female pilots and the first Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat
Zuleika Suárez (born 1994), Colombian beauty pageant contestant
Zuleikha Yunus Haji (born 1956), former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania
Zuleyka Silver (born 1991), Mexican-American actress and model
Zuleica Wilson (born 1993), Angolan model




Biblical and fictional characters


Zuleikha (tradition), Potiphar's wife in Jewish and Muslim tradition
Zulaikha in Yusuf and Zulaikha, the Islamic version of the story of the prophet Joseph and Potiphar's wife
Zuleika, heroine of the poem The Bride of Abydos (1813) by Byron
Zuleika, heroine of the Book of Zuleika in the West–östlicher Divan (1819) by Goethe
Zulejka, heroine of the narrative poem Sümeg vára (1858) by Alajos Balogh
Title heroine of the 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
Title character of Zuleika (musical), a musical based on the novel Zuleika Dobson
Title heroine of the 2005 Maldivian film Zuleykha
Title heroine of the 2015 novel Zuleikha by Russian author Guzel Yakhina




See also


All pages with titles beginning with Zuleika
All pages with titles containing Zuleika
Zuleika (disambiguation)




References

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• Zuleika (given name)
• Zuleika
• Potiphar's wife
• Yusuf and Zulaikha
• The Bride of Abydos
• Charles Bronson
• Ferdowsi
• Nehemiah
• Joseph: King of Dreams
• List of women in the Bible