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Nahla (name)
Nahla is a feminine given name of multiple origins. The name is of Arabic and African origin meaning ''first drink of water'' or ''water in the desert''. In Sanskrit, it means ''stem, hollow reed''. In Swahili and other languages spoken in countries of Africa, it means ''queen'', ''lion'' and '' successful woman''. Another variant is ''Nala''. This means 'gift' in Swahili. A descendant of the Arabic, "Naħla" means Bee in the Maltese language. Notable people with the given name, or its variants, include: *Nahlah Ayed, Canadian journalist *Nahla Chahal, Iraqi-Lebanese journalist and activist *Nala Damajanti, snake charmer *Nahla Mahmoud, Sudanese-British writer and activist *Nahla El Fatiha Naili, Algerian sculptor *Nahla Ramadan, Egyptian weightlifter *Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, Iraqi women's rights promoter *Nahla Summers, social campaigner Notable people with the surname include: *June-Rose Nala, South African trade unionist and academic References External links Babynames [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions. As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies. Sanskrit generally connotes several Old Indo-Aryan language varieties. The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rig Veda, a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahlah Ayed
Nahlah Ayed (Arabic: نهله عَايِد) is a Canadian journalist, who is currently the host of the academic documentary program ''Ideas'' on CBC Radio One and a reporter with CBC News. She was previously a foreign correspondent with the network and has also worked as a parliamentary correspondent under The Canadian Press. Her reporting on contemporary Middle Eastern politics has garnered multiple awards, both domestic and international. Early life Ayed was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1970 to Palestinian refugees Hassan and Nariman Ayed. The couple had immigrated to Canada in 1966 after experiencing difficulty in Germany, where Ayed’s father Hassan had initially sought refuge, and lived in suburban Winnipeg until Ayed was six years old. Despite living in a primarily white neighbourhood, Ayed’s parents sought to give her and her three siblings a traditional Arab upbringing: from a young age, Ayed became fluent in English, French, and Arabic, learning the first two langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahla Chahal
Nahla Chahal is a Lebanese writer, journalist, researcher and activist, born to an Iraqi mother and Lebanese father, who were both communist militants. She was one of the leaders of the Organization of Communist Action of Lebanon and a participant in the Lebanese Communist Party. She is also a columnist at Al Hayat pan Arabic newspaper, which is published in London. She taught at the Lebanese University for eleven years, then she later moved to Paris to focus more on research and is now president of the Arab Women Researchers Association. She is sister of late film director Randa Chahal and currently resides in Paris, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ..., where Randa died. Publications * ''Une Irakité latente'' (2003), which was published in ''Le Moyen-Ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nala Damajanti
Nala Damajanti was the stage name of a late 19th-century snake charmer who toured with P.T. Barnum's circus and performed at the famed Folies Bergère in Paris. French sources identify her as Emilie Poupon (1861–?) of Nantey, Jura (department), Jura Department, France. Promotional posters of Nala Damajanti have been widely reproduced and are thought to have inspired one of the popular folk images of the African water spirit Mami Wata. Similar acts performing under slightly variant names such as Mala Damajaute, Nata Damajaute, and Nala Damajante are thought to have been the same person. Origins A 17 March 1887 French-language article in ''Le Gaulois'' revealed that Nala Damajanti was born Emilie Poupon in Nantey, France on 4 July 1861. In 1881 she was working as a governess with a French family in St. Petersburg, Russia, when she fell in love with and later married a ceiling-walking acrobat by the name of Palmer who introduced her to the art of snake charming. A record of her ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahla Mahmoud
Nahla Mahmoud (born 1986/7) is a Sudanese-born United Kingdom, British writer, ex-Muslim, secularist, environmentalist, and human rights activist, and spokesperson for the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. She's known for being vocal against religious extremism; advocating free-speech, LGBT rights, and awareness on climate change . She fled to the United Kingdom in 2010. Early life and education Mahmoud was born in Wau, Sudan and raised as a Sunni Muslim. In primary school art class, she drew a picture of Allah, which is Aniconism in Islam, considered forbidden by most Muslims, and her teacher punished her for it. Mahmoud was disgruntled by the fact that she did not enjoy the same rights as boys and men, that she couldn't draw or sculpt what she wanted, or keep a dog as a pet, that she was not allowed to ask critical questions, and that she could not learn about evolution. Mahmoud studied ecology at the University of Khartoum, and worked for the Science Students Association. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahla El Fatiha Naili
Nahla El Fatiha Naili (in Arabic: نهلة الفاتحة نايلي, in Amazigh: Nahla El-Fatiḥa Naili, in Tifinagh: ⴻⵍ ⴼⴰⵜⵉⵃⴰ ⵏⴰⵉⵍⵉ, born 14 November 1986) is an Algerian sculptor. Early life Naili was born the daughter of Rabah Naili, professor in electronic engineering and specialist in meteorology from Azefoun in Tizi Ouzou province, and Hafida Bouhired, model designer from El Aouana in Jijel whose family lived at the Casbah of Algiers. After Naili's parents divorced, she moved with her mother and younger brother Arslan Larbi Redouan, to the family home, Bouhired, located in the heights of Algiers. She is raised by her mother and maternal aunts Zina, Leila, and Houria Bouhired. Education In 2007 Naili had her general French Baccalaureate S series studies in the Lycée International of Alexandre-Dumas in Algiers and graduated from the Higher School of Fine Arts in Algiers in 2016. In 2018 she was preparing a doctoral thesis under the theme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahla Ramadan
Nahla Ramadan Mohamed (Arabic: نهلة رمضان; born 4 April 1985 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Egyptian weightlifter and the pioneer of weightlifting in Egypt, Africa and the Arab world. She competed for Egypt at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing in the heavyweight division, she did not finish the competition, being unable to register a lift in the clean and jerk. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the super-heavyweight category and finished fifth. However, four years later in 2016 samples taken at London 2012 from the Armenian bronze medalist Hripsime Khurshudyan were tested positive for prohibited substances. Therefore, Egypt's Nahla Ramadan, who initially placed fifth, came fourth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahla Hussain Al-Shaly
Nahla Hussain al-Shaly ( ar, نهلة حسين الشالي, b. 1971/1972 – December 18, 2008) was a promoter of women's rights in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the leader of the Kurdistan Women's League, the women's wing of the Kurdistan Communist Party. On December 18, 2008, she was shot and decapitated after gunmen stormed her home in Kirkuk Kirkuk ( ar, كركوك, ku, کەرکووک, translit=Kerkûk, , tr, Kerkük) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located north of Baghdad. The city is home to a diverse population of Turkmens, Arabs, Kurds, .... Hussain, a married mother of two, was 37 at the time. References Year of birth missing 2008 deaths 2008 murders in Iraq Iraqi feminists Iraqi women's rights activists Iraqi Kurdish women Iraqi murder victims People murdered in Iraq 1970s births Deaths by firearm in Iraq Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq Iraqi communists Violence against women in Iraq Kirkuk in the Iraq War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahla Summers
Nahla Summers is an author and social campaigner. She has undertaken distance cycling challenges to draw attention to her mission of encouraging acts of kindness between strangers. In 2014 Summers founded a social enterprise called ''Sunshine People'' which aims to encourage acts of kindness. She also runs an enterprise called ''A Culture of Kindness'' which aims to improve business practices. In 2018, Summers cycled 3015 miles from San Diego, California to San Augustine, Texas. In 2020, she cycled 5007 miles over four months on an ElliptiGO bicycle, writing a Strava art across England in the form of the word "kindness." Honours * Awarded with a Point of Light award by the Prime Minister Theresa May Theresa Mary May, Lady May (; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served in David Cameron's cab ... in 2018. * Finalist in the 0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June-Rose Nala
June-Rose Nala is a former South African trade unionist and academic. Born in Durban, Nala worked at the Frame Group textile mill as a weaver. She became active in the wave of strikes in 1973, as the Durban Moment developed. In September, the National Union of Textile Workers was established, and Nala was elected to its executive. In 1975, Nala was elected as secretary of the Natal Benefit Fund. The Government of South Africa believed that she was involved in instigating strikes at the Natal Cotton and Woollen Mills, and in May 1976 both she and Obed Zuma were arrested and detained. However, they were both released without charge in December. On release, Nala was elected as general secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers' Union (MAWU). She held the position until 1984, when she travelled to England, to study at Ruskin College. She returned to South Africa by 1989, when she became a lecturer at the University of Natal. In this role, she founded the Workers' College, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminine Given Names
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A '' Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and relig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Feminine Given Names
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is the language of literature, official documents, and formal written medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
