name
Furaha
foo-RAH-hah
fuːˈrɑːhɑːListen
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Syllable breakdown
Furaha
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Swahili (East Africa)
- Meaning
- a feminine Swahili name meaning joy, happiness, or delight, from the Swahili and Arabic root furaha — one of the most commonly given positive-meaning names in the Swahili-speaking world; the name belongs to the rich Swahili tradition of naming children with words that express the emotional state of the family at the child's birth — joy, gratitude, blessing, peace — reflecting the idea that the child's identity is inseparable from the relational and emotional context into which they arrive; Swahili, as a Bantu language strongly influenced by Arabic over more than a thousand years of Indian Ocean trade, carries within its vocabulary a synthesis of Bantu grammatical structure and Arabic conceptual vocabulary, making names like Furaha bridges between these two great cultural traditions
- Gender
- female
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