Tafukt
تافوكتIn ArabicⵜⴰⴼⵓⴽⵜIn Tifinagh
- Meaning
- The sun
- For
- A girl
- Origin
- Amazigh
- Other spellings
- Tafouct, Tafoukt, Tafuct
Islamic naming guidance
- Permissible
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources
Tafukt is the everyday Amazigh word for the sun. Herodotus says the ancient Libyans sacrificed to the sun and the moon, but the Encyclopedie berbere article on the sun does not name a goddess Tafukt and calls any reconstruction of a pre-monotheistic sun cosmology conjecture; web pages that present her as a named goddess are weakly sourced. A scholar should confirm the ruling.
Confidence: high
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