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Afrah or Afraah (
Arabic
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أَفْرَاح, ''afrāḥ'') is an Arabic female given name meaning "joyful, happiness, gladness, delight, pleasure, merriment, exhiliration", "high spirits, joy (delight) of the chest" and is also the literal word for "
wedding
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".
The name is the plural or the
superlative
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form of the name
Farah.
People with this name include:
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Afrah Gomdi
Afrah Gomdi is a Paralympian athlete from Tunisia competing mainly in category F40 throwing events.
Afrah competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) ...
, Tunisian Paralympic athlete
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Afrah Nasser
Afrah Nasser () is an independent Yemeni journalist, living in exile in Sweden since 2011. Her reporting on Yemen's political affairs has been published in international publications including the ''Huffington Post'', CNN, Al Jazeera English and ...
, Yemeni journalist
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Abdullahi Afrah
Abdullahi Ali Afrah, born in Somalia, was a Canadian immigrant who returned to Mogadishu as a leader in the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). He was killed 1 July 2008 in a battle with the Ethiopian troops in Matabaan, Hiiraan, Somalia. Shephard, Mic ...
(died 2008), Somali leader in the Union of Islamic Courts
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Abdulahi Ahmed Afrah
Abdulahi Ahmed Afrah is a Somali politician who hails from the Waesle clan (an Abgaal subclan). In June 2007, he escaped an assassination attempt in northern Mogadishu
Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Moga ...
, Somali politician
*Mohamed Afrah Hassan (1974–2019), Maldivian film actor and producer known as
Mohamed Afrah
Mohamed Afrah Hassan, commonly known as Mohamed Afrah (17 January 1974 – 7 April 2019) was a Maldivian film actor and producer.
Career
Afrah was featured in the most successful Maldivian film of 2000, Ahmed Nimal's horror classic '' Zalzalaa'' ...
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Mohamed Afrah Qanyare
Mohamed Qanyare Afrah ( so, Maxamed Qanyare Afrax, ar, محمد افراح قنياري}(1941) was a Somali faction leader and politician who was based south of Mogadishu in the Daynile District. He came in third position in Somalia's first el ...
(born c. 1941), Somali warlord
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Hussein Kulmiye Afrah
Hussein Kulmiye Afrah ( so, Xuseen Kulmiye Afrax, ar, أفراح حسين) (1920 – 1993) was Vice President of Somalia in the era of Siad Barre between 1972 and 1990. He was also a member of the Supreme Revolutionary Council.
Post Civil W ...
(1920–1993), Vice president of Somalia 1969–1991
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Muktar Hussein Afrah
General Muktar Hussein Afrah ( so, Mukhtaar Xuseen Afrax) is an officer in the army of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.
He was commander of forces in Beledweyne after the Battle of Beledweyne. On January 7, 2007 he was arrested by ...
, Somali army officer
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Afrah or Afraah (Arabic: أَفْرَاح, ''afrāḥ'') is an Arabic female given name meaning "joyful, happiness, gladness, delight, pleasure, merriment, exhiliration", "high spirits, joy (delight) of th ...
,lucious red apple
Given names