Kahina
From an Arabic word for a female diviner or priestess, carried into Berber as the byname of a famous 7th-century queen.
Meaning and origin
Kahina is remembered above all as the byname of Dihya, a Berber ruler in the Aurès mountains of what is now Algeria, who led local forces against the Umayyad armies pushing west across North Africa in the late 600s.
How to pronounce Kahina
| English (US) | kah-HEE-nah /kɑːˈhiːnə/ |
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