Bilqis
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Root
-bariki (mubariki)
one who bears or begets children, the bearer of a household
Bilqis descends from Shona bariki, the one who bears children
- Confidence
- 44/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- BilqisEnglish
The consensus position
Mainstream scholarship holds that Bilqīs is a name first attested in early Islamic exegesis for the queen of Sheba, who is unnamed in the Qur'an, and that no Ancient South Arabian inscription attests it. The most cited proposal derives it from Greek pallakis or Hebrew pilegesh, concubine, but this is contested and no origin is established.
The working behind this.
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