Khadra is from the Somali / Arabic خَضْرَاء (Khaḍrāʾ — green, verdant, fresh). A modern American baby name in the broader Somali-Arabic heritage aesthetic. Khadra is one of the foundational Somali + Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Sunni Muslim heritage. The foundational Arabic khaḍrāʾ is foundational symbol of foundational paradise + life + freshness in foundational Quranic imagery + foundational Islamic green-color symbolism (foundational green color of Islamic banners + foundational Prophet Muhammad's green turban + foundational green dome of Prophet's Mosque in Medina). Foundational subject of foundational Yasmina Khadra (Mohammed Moulessehoul, born 1955) — foundational Algerian novelist + foundational former Algerian Army officer + foundational author of foundational Les Hirondelles de Kaboul (The Swallows of Kabul 2002) + L'Attentat (The Attack 2005) — wrote under foundational female pseudonym Yasmina Khadra to escape military censorship.
Featured throughout Somali heritage.
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Khadra reduces to five.