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- noun Plural form of
kunya .
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Examples
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We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their kunyas.
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Throughout the rest of the judge's opinion, further attempts by the government to prove that Uthman was a bodyguard for bin Laden, that he trained in an al-Qaeda camp and was present at the battle of Tora Bora (where al-Qaeda and the Taliban fought the U.S. military and its Afghan proxies in November and December 2001) are bedeviled with identifications based on a photograph and a variety of kunyas (nicknames) that Judge Kennedy found unconvincing.
Judge Rules Yemeni's Detention at Guantanamo Based Solely on Torture 2010
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Throughout the rest of the judge's opinion, further attempts by the government to prove that Uthman was a bodyguard for bin Laden, that he trained in an al-Qaeda camp and was present at the battle of Tora Bora (where al-Qaeda and the Taliban fought the U.S. military and its Afghan proxies in November and December 2001) are bedeviled with identifications based on a photograph and a variety of kunyas (nicknames) that Judge Kennedy found unconvincing.
Andy Worthington: Judge Rules Yemeni's Detention at Guantanamo Based Solely on Torture 2010
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The 9/11 conspirators also awarded themselves kunyas, Islamic honorific names, which often referred to figures from Islam’s heroic early history.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The 9/11 conspirators also awarded themselves kunyas, Islamic honorific names, which often referred to figures from Islam’s heroic early history.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The 9/11 conspirators also awarded themselves kunyas, Islamic honorific names, which often referred to figures from Islam’s heroic early history.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The 9/11 conspirators also awarded themselves kunyas, Islamic honorific names, which often referred to figures from Islam’s heroic early history.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Throughout the rest of the judge's opinion, further attempts by the government to prove that Uthman was a bodyguard for bin Laden, that he trained in an al-Qaeda camp and was present at the battle of Tora Bora (where al-Qaeda and the Taliban fought the US military and its Afghan proxies in November and December 2001) are bedeviled with identifications based on a photograph and a variety of kunyas (nicknames) that Judge Kennedy found unconvincing.
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Throughout the rest of the judge's opinion, further attempts by the government to prove that Uthman was a bodyguard for bin Laden, that he trained in an al-Qaeda camp and was present at the battle of Tora Bora (where al-Qaeda and the Taliban fought the US military and its Afghan proxies in November and December 2001) are bedeviled with identifications based on a photograph and a variety of kunyas (nicknames) that Judge Kennedy found unconvincing.
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Throughout the rest of the judge's opinion, further attempts by the government to prove that Uthman was a bodyguard for bin Laden, that he trained in an al-Qaeda camp and was present at the battle of Tora Bora (where al-Qaeda and the Taliban fought the US military and its Afghan proxies in November and December 2001) are bedeviled with identifications based on a photograph and a variety of kunyas (nicknames) that Judge Kennedy found unconvincing.
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