name
Awino
ah-WEE-noh
ɑːˈwiːnoʊListen
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Syllable breakdown
Awino
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Acholi (Uganda/South Sudan)
- Meaning
- a feminine Acholi name meaning born during the season of the rains, evoking the vital agricultural and spiritual importance of rainfall for Acholi communities of northern Uganda and the eastern regions of South Sudan; the Acholi are a Nilotic people whose cultural life has been profoundly shaped by decades of conflict driven by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, and names connecting girls to natural abundance and renewal carry particular weight in communities that have known profound disruption; Awino speaks to the hope that a daughter will bring vitality and replenishment to her family and clan, just as the rains replenish the dry savanna landscape of the Acholi homeland around Gulu and Kitgum
- Gender
- female
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