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A kunya (Arabic: كنية, kunyah) [6] is a teknonym in Arabic names. It is a component of an Arabic name, a type of epithet , in theory referring to the bearer's first-born son or daughter. By extension, it may also have hypothetical or metaphorical references, e.g. in a nom de guerre or a nickname, without literally referring to a son or a ...
Pages in category "Arabic-language feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The gap between female and male enrollment varies across the Arab world. Countries like Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates achieved almost equal enrollment rates between girls and boys. [85] Female enrollment was as low as 10% in North of Yemen back in 1975. [85]
The kebaya is derived from the Arabic abaya (meaning "clothing") and is the national female dress of Indonesia The fashion media sector within the Muslim world for both Western and Islamic fashion has grown tremendously since the 1990s.
Tuba (also Anglicised as Tooba, Touba, or less frequently Toba; Arabic: طُوبَى, romanized: Ṭūbā, lit. 'blessedness' [1]) is a female name of Arabic origin.It has been common since the 1970s in Turkey, [2] where it is often spelt Tuğba (and that spelling has the same pronunciation as Tuba in Turkish), [2] but it has also been used in other parts of the Muslim world, notably in ...
Samar is a female name in Arabic and Islamic culture. Another meaning used as a female given name bears the meaning "the night and its blackness", where the saying goes: "lā âtiy-hi samara (لا آتيهِ سَمَرًا)", meaning "I wouldn't visit him at samar (that is, the night)" or another meaning used as the "brown" like the shadow of ...
Because of their social prominence, qiyān comprise one of the most richly recorded sections of pre-modern Islamicate female society, particularly female slaves, making them important to the history of slavery in the Muslim world. Moreover, a significant proportion of medieval Arabic female poets whose work survives today were qiyān.
Maymūna (ميمونة) is a female Arabic name. Variant spellings in English include: Maimoonah, Maymoonah, Maymuna(h), Maimouna, Mahmuna and Mehmoona, Maimuna, Mymouna(h), Mymona. Its meaning is “Auspicious, Blessed, Loved, The fortunate one”