Bashirat as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Bashirat

What is the meaning of the name Bashirat ?

The baby name Bashirat is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced ba-SHEE-rat (IPA: /baˈʃiːrat/).

Bashirat is Arabic in Origin.

Bashirat is an Arabic feminine given name, a scholarly transliteration of Bashīra (بشيرة), the feminine of Bashīr. It derives from the Arabic root b‑sh‑r “to announce good news,” yielding meanings such as “bringer of glad tidings,” “bearer of good news,” and “auspicious.” The root is prominent in the Qur’an (e.g., bashīran), so the name has long been favored in Islamic communities as a hopeful, benevolent epithet.

Attested since the early Islamic era, the name appears across the Middle East, North and East Africa, South Asia, and especially West Africa, where orthographies like Bashiratu and Bashiratou reflect Hausa and Francophone West African usage. Common variants include Bashira, Bashirah, and Bashirah/Bashīrah with or without diacritics; related forms are the masculine Bashir and the cognate Bushra. A distinct but etymologically linked name is Basharat in Urdu-Persian. Informal diminutives include Bashi.