name
Djeneba
jeh-NEH-bah
dʒɛˈneɪbɑːListen
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Djeneba
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Fula (West Africa)
- Meaning
- a Fula feminine name widely used across the Sahel and West African savannah belt where the Fula (also called Fulani or Peul) people constitute the world's largest nomadic pastoralist population, spanning Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon; Djeneba is associated with beauty and nobility and is deeply embedded in West African Islamic literary culture through the Fula tradition of Sufi poetry and scholarship; the name reflects the Fula aesthetic ideal of fulɓiness, the quality of being fully Fula in bearing, speech, and spiritual orientation
- Gender
- female
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