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Amazigh · First name · male · descriptive name

Tamazight for "star". Amazigh names are frequently ordinary nouns used directly as personal names, rather than a separate naming vocabulary.

Source: Tamazight vocabulary names, cross-referenced across Morocco-guide.com, Namegify, and independent Amazigh-naming resources

Other Amazigh first names

Ayyur
Tamazight for "moon".
Tafsut
Tamazight for "spring" (the season).
Tilelli
Tamazight for "freedom".

More descriptive names, from other cultures

Alemayehu · Amharic
From "alem" (the world) and "ayehu" (I have seen): in use, understood to mean "I have enjoyed life".
Girma · Amharic
Amharic for "majesty, dignity, honour".
Gidado · Fulani
Fulfulde for "beloved", from the root "yiɗi" (to love) plus a suffix marking the human agent of the action.
Kariuki · Kikuyu
Kikuyu for "the reincarnated one", traditionally given when a child is believed to carry the spirit of a deceased relative.
Muchoki · Kikuyu
"The one who returns" — the male counterpart to Njoki, in the same reincarnation-naming tradition as the existing Kariuki: given when a child is believed to carry back a departed relative's spirit, often a grandfather's name passed to a grandson.
Oluoch · Luo
From Dholuo "luoch" (mist).
Legishon · Maasai
Maa for "the polite one".
Lemayian · Maasai
Often glossed as "the blessed one" in Maa. We have found this only in online name lists, not in a dictionary or a study of Maasai names.
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