name
Idir
ee-DEER
iːˈdiːrListen
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Syllable breakdown
Idir
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Kabyle (Algeria)
- Meaning
- a Kabyle Amazigh masculine name meaning he who lives or the living one, from the Tamazight root meaning life and existence; made internationally famous by the Kabyle singer Idir, born Hamid Cheriet, whose 1973 song A Vava Inouva became the first Berber language song to achieve global recognition; the name is one of the most treasured in the Kabyle onomastic tradition and symbolises the endurance of Amazigh identity through centuries of Arabisation and Francisation
- Gender
- male
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