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Gender Feminine
Usage Berber
Scripts ⴽⴰⵀⵉⵏⴰ(Tifinagh) كهينة(Arabic)

Meaning & History

Derived from Arabic الكاهنة (al-Kāhina) meaning "the diviner, the fortuneteller". This was a title applied to the 7th-century Berber queen Dihya, who resisted the Arab expansion into North Africa.