Hind is both an English surname and an Arabic female given name. Notable people with the name include:

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Hind or Hend pronounced [‘hend ] ; is an ancient female Arab given name that is still used to this day . The name Hind goes back to pre Islamic Arab era and means “ a hundred camels” and “two hundred years” . The name Hind is often mentioned in Arab poetry as an object of romance like in this translation of a poem by famous Egyptian poet and doctor Ibrahim Nagi :

What's your trick, Hind? Your face showed up at me

With a powerful and tyrannical femininity

Oh Hind, where is my manhood and determination?

In the proximity of a charming, charming face

I am sad and thirsty

Drank with my eyes two lips

[1]

And in this translation of a poem by Ibn Hazm  :

When does a soul damaged by conscience heal?

And look forward to a house whose people have become far away

I met Hind, who is our neighbor

And more than India for its seeker Hind

Indeed, there is comfort near home

Just as the thirsty person catches the water approaching

[2]

The name Hind is also found in a poem by Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah that translates as :

Oh Hind, you have warmed my heart

An atmosphere of sadness contained in conscience

If you are gone, my heart comes to you

The soul has redeemed you from a burning longing

The day is long and I don't see you

And my day when I see you is short

The abandonment made my heart sore

And abandoning you, you know, is a big matter

I sacrificed for you, release my rope of existence

For God is Most Pardoning, Most Forgiving

[3]

However the most famous poem mentioning the name Hind is a poem by Bashshar ibn Burd , translated below :

My reproach to Hind has been prolonged

And my longing and my demands

And my disagreement every day

With false promises

Whenever I came for a promise

It was spent in the evening in the ruins

It broke when it was intended

Like the breaking of a mirage

Yazid blamed me for it

And was harsh towards my companion

I said to the blamer for it

He choked on his drink

Time is not obeyed in what

It has taken care of me with its

I wish someone blamed a lover

And threw him with reproach

Hind has exhausted my life

Hind has no repentance

May Allah afflict him with an illness

Occasion or torment

She conceived me with her desires

And her charms, so the deception

How can she not take refuge with a person

Wandering heart, afflicted

Burning in the love of Hind

With a complaint and a sob

Love for Hind entered

His heart from every door

If only I had a bow and arrows

When my beloveds have grown old

So I can strike the heart from them

With sharp, accurate arrows

From the arrows of love, for I

I desire her for the beloved

And my heart has been completed

With aversion And avoid

The day when she stood up, swaying

Between the clouds and the hustle and bustle

The most beautiful of all people

Whether unveiled or in a veil

She was perfect in the eyes in beauty

And beautiful in clothes

Remember the night when we played

In thunder and clouds

And a conversation we chose

In chastity and youth

And a messenger who spent the night walking

In your love with the book

Warning the lover until

They set up the edge of spears

From an enemy we fear

And angry cousins

My love knocked with worry

Almost Makes me forget my destination

And brought me back to my emptiness

With the plague of youth

On the day she said, Beware the eye

On the veiled one

Be a raven when you come

Between us or like a raven

Beware the eye, for we

We were not people of faults

So I prepared myself

Towards her without kinship

So we met with a talk

Of complaint and reproach

A logic from her and from me

Other than the investigation of the insults

I said when she was harsh with me

This was not my calculation

Where I hope for you So you were poisoned

Your visit is a whip of torment

I wish I had been in the dust before your love

So Hind wept and said

Love, do not deny my speech

Harshness after meeting

After that, a soft answer

[4]


Famous Arab women with the name Hind :

  • Hind bint Amr (Arabic: هند بنت عمرو بن حرام )was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
  • Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum (Arabic: الشيخة هند بنت مكتوم بن جمعة آل مكتوم; is an Emirati royal who is the senior wife and consort of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.They were married on 26 April 1979. She is the mother of 12 of her husband's thirty children, including his heir apparent, Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai.
  • Hind Dekker-Abdulaziz is an Iraqi-born Dutch politician from Democrats 66.
  • Hind Dehiba Chahyd, is a Moroccan-French runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.
  • Hind Laroussi Tahiri ( Arabic: هند العروسي), known professionally as Hind, is a Dutch singer of Moroccan descent.
  • Hind Rajab ( Arabic :هند رجب ) was a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by Israeli forces, during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, which also killed six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue.
  • Hind Khoudary (Arabic: هند خضري) is a Palestinian journalist based in the Gaza Strip.She has reported for multiple media outlets including Al Jazeera English and Anadolu Agency.
  • Hind Khoury ( Arabic: هند خوري,) is a Palestinian economist. She was the delegate general of the Palestine Liberation Organization in France from March 2006 until June 2010.
  • Hind bint Utba (Arabic: هند بنت عتبة بن ربيعة, romanized: Hind bint ʿUtba ibn Rabīʿa) was the wife of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and the mother of Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680). Hind converted to Islam in 630 and is highly praised by Sunni Islamic sources for her military role at the Battle of the Yarmuk under Caliph Umar (r. 634–644).
  • Hind bint Abi Umayya (Arabic: هِنْد ابِنْت أَبِي أُمَيَّة, Hind ʾibnat ʾAbī ʾUmayya, c. 580 or 596 – 680 or 683), better known as Umm Salamah (Arabic: أُمّ سَلَمَة) or Hind al-Makhzūmiyya (Arabic: هِنْد ٱلْمَخْزُومِيَّة) was the sixth wife of Muhammad.
  • Hind bint al-Nuʿmān (Arabic:هند بنت النعمان ), also known as al-Ḥurqah , was a pre-Islamic Arab poet. An example of a poet-princess, she has been read as a key figure in pre-Islamic poetry.
  • Hind bint al-Khuss al-Iyādiyya (Arabic: هند بنت الخس الإيادية, also Hind ibnat al-Khuss al-Iyādiyya) is a legendary pre-Islamic female poet. While older scholarship supposed that Hind was a real person, recent research views her as an entirely legendary figure. Stories surrounding Hind focus on her eloquent responses to questions, sometimes in verse, sometimes in sajʿ (rhyming prose), and sometimes in prose, regarding gender, marriage, plants, animals or weather.
  • Sheikha Hind bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (Arabic: هند بنت حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني; is a Qatari royal . She is the daughter of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al-Missned and the sister of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani .
  • Hind al-Husseini(Arabic: هند الحسيني) was a Palestinian woman notable for rescuing 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre, after they were dropped off in Jerusalem and left to fend for themselves. She later converted her grandfather Salim al-Husayni's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.Hind was also dedicated to women's issues, establishing a college for women, and serving in the Arab Women's Union.
  • Hind Azouz (sometimes Azzuz) was a Tunisian writer.
  • Hind bint Al-Nu’man bin Bashir ( Arabic: هند بنت النعمان بن بشير ; was the most beautiful woman and the best woman of her time in morals and character, politeness, kindness and eloquence, and she had knowledge of prose and poetry.She was the wife of governor Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf . Later , she married Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan .
  • Hind Rostom, (Egyptian Arabic: هند رستم); was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in the Egyptian cinema, as she was mainly known for her sensual roles. Her physical appearance earned her the name Marilyn Monroe of the east ("مارلين مونرو الشرق").Hind Rostom starred in more than 80 movies in her career.
  • Hend Sabry (Egyptian Arabic: هند صبرى) , is a Tunisian and Egyptian actress working in Egypt.