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Basma - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Basma

[ syll. ba-sma, bas-ma ] The girl name Basma is pronounced BAEZMah KEY. Basma's origin and use are both in the Arabic language. The meaning of Basma is 'smile'. Basma is the feminine version of the Arabic Basim. A form of the name is the Arabic Basima.

Basma is not commonly used as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Basma include the Albanian Besjana, the Polish Bogna, the Arabic Basima, the Spanish Begoña, the Czech and Slavic Bojana, the Czech Bozena, and the Albanian Besiana.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Basma: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; Z as in "zee (Z.IY)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"


 
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