hamsa

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hamsa

Summary

hamsa is an amulet[1]. hamsa ranks in the top 10% of amulet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,414 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • hamsa's image is recorded as WPVA-khamsa.svg[3].
  • hamsa's image is recorded as Medina of Hammamet, Tunesien Januar 2015 03.JPG[4].
  • hamsa's instance of is recorded as amulet[5].
  • hamsa's GND ID is recorded as 4814268-2[6].
  • hamsa's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2004014830[7].
  • hamsa's Commons category is recorded as Khamsa[8].
  • hamsa's Unicode character is recorded as 🪬[9].
  • hamsa's has part is recorded as human hand[10].
  • hamsa's has part is recorded as eye[11].
  • hamsa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027hlnl[12].
  • hamsa's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Hand-of-Fatima[13].
  • hamsa's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'خمسة'}[14].
  • hamsa's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'חמסה'}[15].
  • hamsa's different from is recorded as nazar[16].
  • hamsa's different from is recorded as Hand of Fatima[17].
  • hamsa's different from is recorded as God's eye[18].
  • hamsa's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 4008226[19].
  • hamsa's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007535036505171[20].
  • hamsa's Lex ID is recorded as Fatimas_hånd[21].
  • hamsa's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 함사[22].
  • hamsa's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/1ca64f69-7cb8-42ce-903d-3eb208ee5801[23].

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Designation and Status

hamsa's instance of is recorded as amulet[5].

Why It Matters

hamsa ranks in the top 10% of amulet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,414 views/month).[2] hamsa has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] hamsa is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_hamsa_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{hamsa}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/hamsa}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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