Zuleika
- (zoo-LAY-ka) - I thought this unusual name deserved mentioning. It is wildly exotic, with a nice ring to it. It means "fair-haired" and is a character in a novel (I can't remember the author) who was so beautiful that men literally died for her attentions.
- (ZEL-eh-kah) Really weird-sounding, true, but I think it's beautiful. Plus, someone wrote a book about a girl named Zuleika who was beautiful that all the students at Oxford literally died for the love of her.
Though she is not mentioned in the Bible, medieval legend has Zuleika being the name of Potiphar's wife. Scholars suggest that this name may mean "brilliant beauty" in Persian.
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