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I'm fond of Dinah.

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Dinah Beatrice
Dinah Beatrix
Dinah Catherine
Dinah Cecily
Dinah Celestine
Dinah Charlotte
Dinah Clare
Dinah Clarice / Clarisse
Dinah Clarimonde
Dinah Corisande
Dinah Eloise
Dinah Florence
Dinah Frances
Dinah Juliet
Dinah Lavender
Dinah Laurel
Dinah Lettice
Dinah Lilias
Dinah Louise
Dinah Lucille
Dinah Lucrece
Dinah Mabel
Dinah Margaret
Dinah Mariam
Dinah Marigold
Dinah Mary
Dinah Mathilde
Dinah Melisande
Dinah Millicent

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My new favorite...

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According to the Bible, Dinah was the daughter of Jacob and Leah. Genesis 34 narrates the episode of her abduction and violation by a Canaanite prince, and the vengeance of her brothers Simeon and Levi, commonly referred to as "The Rape of Dinah."

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But turning aside that fact, this name is definitely one of my top favorites now. I just read “The Red Tent” also dubbed “The Book of Dinah” by Anita Diamant, which is Dinah's take on that particular bible story. After finishing the book I realized how much I really enjoyed the name. I’m going to just quote how it was described in the book, because it was done so well:

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“Near the beginning of your holy book, there is a passage that seems to say that I was raped and continues with the bloody tale of how my honor was avenged. It’s wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.”

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I pronounce it, as in the book, DEE-nah not DY-nah.
It’s a beautiful name.

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OT: I think it’s kind of ironic how Dinah is being mentioned here at BTN the same day as Leah and Rachel in posts below, who were wives of Jacob and Dinah’s mothers!

This message was edited 7/12/2008, 2:56 PM

I love Dinah; there's a fabulous recording of the song by that name by Django Reinhardt. :) And it's what Katharine Hepburn's little sister is called (though her real name in the film is Diana) in The Philadelphia Story--and Dinah Lord's character is hilarious.

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I like Dinah best with something pretty clearly old-fashioned.

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Dinah Coralie
Dinah Ruth
Dinah Antonia
Dinah Doreen
Dinah Frances
Dinah Sally
Dinah Carole
Dinah Dorothy
Dinah Florence
Dinah Margery
Dinah Berenice
Dinah Martina
Dinah Susannah
Dinah Bettie
Dinah Gloria
Dinah Patrice
Dinah Camille
Dinah Constance
Dinah Helen
Dinah Rosalind

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I think its a beautiful name, one you don't hear often.

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Dinah Elizabeth
Dinah Michelle
Dinah Lillian
Dinah Victoria
Dinah Ruth
Dinah Belle
Dinah Katharine
Dinah Helena
Dinah Elise