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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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“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

Aminah, a 6th year pupil at Cumbernauld Academy in North Lanarkshire, told BBC Scotland that she had never sat a formal exam.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2022

The subject of her cheers, Aminah Mae Safi, just announced she’s narrating the audiobook of her 2019 rom-com novel, “Tell Me How You Really Feel.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022

Aminah Mellion, 39, a public school employee from Springfield, Va., was at the march with her 6-year-old daughter, Ella, who was holding a “Black Lives Matter” sign.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2020

His mother Aminah took him, aged six, to Madinah to present him to his maternal relations there.

From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.

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