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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Arabic: Shining, luminous
  2. Arabic, Swahili: White; flowers

First name variations: Zahar, Zahara, Zara, Zarah

Last name origin & meaning:

Muslim: from the Arabic female personal name Zahrā’, feminine of Azhar ‘bright’, ‘brilliant’, ‘radiant’. Zahrā’ is an epithet of Fatima, daughter of Muhammad.