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Aphra

About Aphra
Aphra is an indirect Quranic name for girls that means “white”, “fair”, “13th night of the lunar month” (on which the moon is almost full and thus its white light is shining brightly), “female gazelle that with white patches of fur”. Aphra is the name of  two Sahabiyaat (virtuous women who lived at the time of the Prophet ï·ș) that we know of, whose full names were Aphra bint Ubaid bin Thaalaba and Aphra bint as-Sakn bin Raafi. It is derived from the AIN-F-R AIN-F-R  (“dust”, “power”, etc.) root which is used in the Quran in verse 27:39.
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