Galih Names

Galih Names (Male

Musa / Moussa

Amastan / Mastan

Amoud / Amud

Ahitagel — named as an Ahaggar king before Musa ag Mastan.

Ahmadu

Ahmadu ag Musa — listed in Rodd’s index.

Ibrahim

Akhmad / Ahmad

Aljilani

Busari

Makhammad / Muhammad

Balkhu

Wan Agoda

Akhanokhan

Khadakhada

Alkhurer

Bazu

Teguidda

Kaocen

Sanusi

Boula

Rhissa

Aoutchiki

Kriska,

Tabdali

Guma

Taghama

Tsofo

Umaru

Humad

Salim, Rashid, Hamdan, Jaber, Faris, Sakr, Dhiab, Awad, Mubarak, Nasser, Ali, Abdullah.

Galih Names (Female)

Tin Hinan — legendary Tuareg queen/ancestress; not 19th c., but culturally iconic. Her name is often glossed as “woman/she of the tents.”

Kella — associated in legend with Tin Hinan’s daughter or granddaughter.

Takamat — another legendary female figure in the Tin Hinan tradition.

T’iugas — a woman named in Tuareg historical tradition in People of the Veil, connected with the Kel Owi origin story.

Kanuri

Katu

Kenna

Kenwa

Kulla

Laha

Lalla

Laysa

Senana

Senniri

Stera

Tabeiyat

Tabelwit

Tadast

Tahart — glossed as “lioness” in one Amazigh-name compilation drawing on M. A. Haddadou.

Tahenkot / Tahenkoṭ — glossed there as “gazelle.”

Taiya

Takament

Aisha

Fatima

Khadija / Khadijeh

Zaynab / Zeinab

Maryam / Mariam

Amina / Amineh

Halima

Salma

Layla / Leila

Safiya

Ruqayya

Hind

Nura / Noora

Zahra

Jamila

Latifa

Na‘ima / Naima

Sitt / Sitti