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Zindagi Gulzar Hai (زندگی گلزار ہے)
Zindagi Gulzar Hai (زندگی گلزار ہے), a 2012–2013 Hum TV Pakistani Urdu drama serial written by Umera Ahmed, directed by Sultana Siddiqui, starring Fawad Khan as Zaroon and Sanam Saeed as Kashaf, about class divide and gender roles.
Zindagi Ki Mehek
Zindagi Ki Mehek (ज़िंदगी की महक), Hindi romantic drama serial on Zee TV, aired 19 September 2016 to 31 August 2018, about 505 episodes, starring Samiksha Jaiswal as cook Mehek and Karan Vohra as Shaurya; created by Saurabh Tewari, produced by Parin Multimedia.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ज़िंदगी ना मिलेगी दोबारा)
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ज़िंदगी ना मिलेगी दोबारा) is a 2011 Hindi film directed by Zoya Akhtar, following three friends on a road trip across Spain.
Zindaginama
Zindaginama (ज़िंदगीनामा) is a 2024 Hindi SonyLIV anthology of six episodes on schizophrenia, OCD, gender dysphoria, anorexia, gaming addiction, and PTSD, created by Neerja Birla; also the title of Krishna Sobti's 1979 Hindi novel.
Zindan Bridge
Zindan Bridge, a Roman-era stone bridge over the Zindan Deresi (Eurymedon, Köprüçay) near Zindan Mağarası sanctuary, Aksu, Isparta, Turkey; pedestrian crossing slated for conservation under a 2020 project.
Zindan-Nama
Zindan-Nama ("Book of the Prison") is the third poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, written in prison and published in Lahore in 1956.
Zinder (city)
Zinder, locally known as Damagaram and formerly spelled Sinder, is a city in southern Niger, capital of Zinder Region, about 900 km east of Niamey.
Zinder (district)
Zinder Region (district), Niger: center-east region around the city of Zinder, capital of the historic Damagaram sultanate; 155,778 km², about 5.27 million people (2023), 10 departments, highest national growth rate at 4.7%.
Zindzi Mandela
Zindziswa "Zindzi" Nobutho Mandela (1960–2020), South African activist and diplomat, youngest daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela; read her father's 1985 rejection of Botha's conditional release at Jabulani Stadium; Ambassador to Denmark from 2015.
Zine
Zine ("zeen," from fanzine): a self-published, non-commercial, small-circulation booklet, usually photocopied, made for love of a subject rather than profit. Emerged in 1930s science-fiction fandom, flourished in punk and riot grrrl cultures, now held in major library collections.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (زين العابدين بن علي)
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (زين العابدين بن علي), president of Tunisia 1987–2011, second president after Bourguiba; took power via Article 57, renamed ruling party RCD, fled to Saudi Arabia in the 2011 revolution, died in exile in Jeddah in 2019.
Zine Tseng
Zine Tseng (曾靖) is a Taiwanese actress born in 1994, best known as young Ye Wenjie in Netflix's 3 Body Problem (2024), her debut role, and as Princess Gulun Shou'an in Prime Video's Young Sherlock (2026); also known as 齊恩·曾.
Zineb
Zineb (zinc ethylenebisdithiocarbamate, CAS 12122-67-7, trade name Dithane) is a polymeric EBDC dithiocarbamate fungicide developed in 1943 from nabam plus zinc sulfate; US uses cancelled 1988, EU biocidal PT21 approval under endocrine review.
Zinedin Smajlović
Zinedin Smajlović, Bosnian centre-back born 2003 in Stockholm, plays for Olympiacos and Bosnia and Herzegovina after switching from Sweden U21; signed from Sandefjord for €5M in July 2026.
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane (Zizou), born 1972 in Marseille, French midfielder, 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winner, Ballon d'Or 1998, Real Madrid record signing; later won three straight Champions Leagues coaching Real Madrid and now coaches France.
Zinfandel
Zinfandel, also called Primitivo in Italy and Tribidrag or Crljenak Kastelanski in Croatia, is a red wine grape genetically identical across all three names. It is California's third most planted winegrape, first documented by name in Boston in 1832.
Zingerone
Zingerone, also called vanillylacetone, is a pungent phenolic compound found in ginger and used as a flavoring agent, forming when gingerols break down during drying or cooking.
Zingiber
Zingiber, also called the ginger genus (Zingiber Mill., 1754), is a genus of about 216 accepted species of aromatic rhizomatous herbs in Zingiberaceae, native to tropical and subtropical Asia; it includes ginger (Zingiber officinale), shampoo ginger (Z. zerumbet), and mioga.
Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae, the ginger family (Zingiber), is a pantropical family of aromatic rhizomatous herbs in Zingiberales with one fertile stamen; source of ginger, turmeric, and cardamom, concentrated in South and South-East Asia.
Zingiberales
Zingiberales, also known as Scitaminaceae or Zingiberiflorae, is an order of pantropical monocot flowering plants in eight families, including gingers, bananas, and cannas, totaling about 2500 species and yielding crops like ginger and banana.
Zingiberene
Zingiberene is a monocyclic sesquiterpene hydrocarbon, C₁₅H₂₄, and the significant volatile constituent of ginger essential oil, contributing its fresh, sharp, spicy note while ginger's pungency comes from gingerols.
Zingsheim
Zingsheim is a village in Nettersheim, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, seat of the municipal administration, first recorded as Cinesheym in 893, with a Roman Matronae Fachinehae temple (Vor Hirschberg) at its edge.
Zinhle Essamuah
Zinhle Essamuah is an American journalist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, co-anchor of NBC News Daily (2-4 p.m. ET) and NBC News correspondent across NBC News NOW, Nightly News, and TODAY; formerly NowThis KnowThis anchor, Gracie Award winner for Hands Up.
Zinier
Zinier is a field service automation software company founded in October 2015 by Andrew Wolf and Arka Dhar, based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Bengaluru.
Zinkgruvan
Zinkgruvan, meaning "the zinc mine," is an underground zinc-lead-silver mine in Askersund Municipality, Sweden, in continuous operation since 1857 and owned by Boliden since 2025.
Zinnia
Zinnia, a genus of about 18-22 Asteraceae species native from the southern US to Argentina, especially Mexico; garden annuals including Zinnia elegans, blooming in every color except blue, not known to be invasive.
Zinnia elegans
Zinnia elegans (garden zinnia, common zinnia), an Asteraceae annual native to Mexico to Nicaragua, is the species behind most garden zinnia cultivars, grown worldwide for cut flowers despite mildew and leaf spot susceptibility.
Zino Davidoff
Zino Davidoff (1906–1994) was a Kyiv-born Swiss tobacconist who turned his father's Geneva shop into a luxury cigar brand and in 1970 sold it to Basel's Oettinger firm.
Zinoviev letter
The Zinoviev letter, a 1924 document purporting to be from Comintern chief Grigori Zinoviev to the British Communist Party, was published by the Daily Mail before the 1924 election, helped defeat Labour's first government, and is now considered a likely forgery.
Zinovy Rozhestvensky
Zinovy Rozhestvensky (Зиновий Петрович Рожественский) was an Imperial Russian vice admiral who led the Second Pacific Squadron to defeat at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905.