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Afrah
Arabic female given name From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Afrah or Afraah (Arabic: أَفْرَاح, afrāḥ) is an Arabic female given name meaning "joyful, happiness, gladness, delight, pleasure, merriment, exhilaration", "high spirits, joy (delight) of the chest" and is also the literal word for "wedding".
The name is the plural or the superlative form of the name Farah.
People with this name include:
- Afrah Gomdi, Tunisian Paralympic athlete
- Afrah Nasser, Yemeni journalist
- Abdullahi Afrah (died 2008), Somali leader in the Union of Islamic Courts
- Abdulahi Ahmed Afrah, Somali politician
- Mohamed Afrah Hassan (1974–2019), Maldivian film actor and producer known as Mohamed Afrah
- Mohamed Afrah Qanyare (born c. 1941), Somali warlord
- Hussein Kulmiye Afrah (1920–1993), Vice president of Somalia 1969–1991
- Muktar Hussein Afrah, Somali army officer
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