Ismat
Appearance
Ismat/Esmat (Arabic: عصمت / اسمت[1] or عصمة[2]) is a mainly female given name meaning purity, chastity or modesty and in classical Arabic infallibility, immaculate, impeccability, faultlessness. Transliteration variants include Esmat and Asmat.
Female given name
[edit]- Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991), Indian Urdu writer
- Esmat Dowlatshahi (1904–1995), Iranian aristocrat and the fourth and last spouse of Reza Shah
- Ismat Jahan (born 1960), Bangladeshi diplomat
- Esmat Mansour (born 1986), Egyptian weightlifter
- Ismat Ara Nishi, Bangladeshi Kabaddi player
- Aisha 'Esmat al-Taymuriyya or Aisha Taymur (1840–1902), Egyptian social activist, poet, novelist, and feminist
- Ismat Zaidi, Pakistani actress
- Ismat Ghoneim اسمت غنيم , Egyptian Professor of Middle Age History.
- Ismat Elshazly اسمت الشاذلي (born 1980), Egyptian nutritionist
Male given name
[edit]- Ismat Abasov (born 1954), Azerbaijani politician
- Ismat Abdel-Rahman, Sudanese Army officer
- Ismat Beg, (born 1951), Pakistani mathematician
- Ismat Gayibov (1942–1991), Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan
- Ismat T. Kittani (1929–2001), Iraqi politician
- Esmat Shanwary (born 1993), Afghan-Dutch footballer
- Ismat Farahat اسمت فرحات, Egyptian Actor.
Middle name
[edit]- Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (1924–2013), Egyptian diplomat
Surname
[edit]- Riad Ismat (1947–2020), Syrian dramatist and playwright
See also
[edit]- Ismet, Turkish spelling of the same name
- Ismat ad-Din (disambiguation)
- Ismatullah