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Aminah

American  
[ah-mee-nuh] / ɑˈmi nə /
Or Amina

noun

  1. a first name: from an Arabic word meaning “honest and faithful.”


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Two tough women: Aminah Nieves as Teonna, who is on the lam.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

“I don’t want to die,” Aminah Williams, one of the first of the group to be certified as a doula, recalled more than one Black expectant mother telling her.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

Coleman’s mother, Aminah Saladin, denied that her son assaulted or choked police.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2022

One Surf user is York University student Aminah Al-Noor, who says she feels that the extension has given her "the control back" over her online data.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2022

By the same barbarism Khadijah becomes "Khaddugah"; Aminah, "Ammunah"; and Nafisah, "Naffusah," on the banks of the Nile.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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