Gender:
Female
Meanings:
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Form of Safiyya: Serene; pure; best friend (sah-FEE-yah—Arabic, North Africa).
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Form of Safiya: Purity (sah-FEE-yah—Swahili, East Africa).
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Form of the biblical Sophia: Wisdom (Greek).
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Daughter of a Shaiqiya chief of the Nile area of the Sudan (1800s).
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Morning (Hausa, West Africa).
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