Afrah or Afraah (
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أَفْرَاح, ''afrāḥ'') is an Arabic female given name meaning "joyful, happiness, gladness, delight, pleasure, merriment, exhilaration", "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 ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in G ...
, 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 (March 9, 1953 – July 1, 2008), born in Somalia, was a Canadian immigrant who returned to Mogadishu as a leader in the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). He was killed on 1 July 2008 in a battle with the Ethiopian troops in Matab ...
(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, locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and Lis ...
, 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 (, }(1941–2019) 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 election as a federal country on 10 October 2004 and was s ...
(born {{circa, 1941), Somali warlord
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Hussein Kulmiye Afrah
Hussein Kulmiye Afrah (, ) (1920 – 1993) was the Vice President of Somalia during the era of Siad Barre, serving from 1972 to 1990. He was also a member of the Supreme Revolutionary Council and served as the Minister of Interior from 1971 to ...
(1920–1993), Vice president of Somalia 1969–1991
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Muktar Hussein Afrah
General Muktar Hussein Afrah () 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 Ethiopian troops for relea ...
, Somali army officer
Given names