name
Aissatou
ay-sah-TOO
eɪsɑːˈtuːListen
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Aissatou
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Wolof (Senegal)
- Meaning
- a feminine name widely used in Wolof-speaking Senegal and across the Senegambia region, derived from the Arabic Aisha, the name of the Prophet Muhammad's beloved wife and one of the most revered women in Islamic history; in Wolof Muslim culture, which blends pre-Islamic Wolof traditions with the Sufi brotherhoods — particularly the Mouride and Tijaniyya orders — female names of Arabic origin are almost universal while their pronunciation and emotional resonance are entirely Senegambian; Aissatou was immortalised as the name of the narrator's lost friend in Mariama Bâ's acclaimed 1979 epistolary novel Une Si Longue Lettre, one of the most celebrated works of African women's literature
- Gender
- female
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