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Dernah

Dernah is the alternative form of Derna.

Meaning of Derna

Proper noun

Derna

  1. A city and port in Derna district, in north-eastern Libya.
    • She asked what place I loved most. It surprised me what came to mind: Derna, my mother’s hometown, and I thought of telling her about it, the smell of herbs as we would drive into the hills, the waterfall that comes out of nowhere, the sea always behind you.2024, Hisham Matar, My Friends, Random House (2025), page 157
  2. A district of Libya; in full, Derna District. Capital: Derna.

Questions about Dernah

What is Dernah the alternative form of?
Dernah is the alternative form of Derna.

Words near Dernah in the dictionary

  1. dermotropism
  2. dermovascular
  3. derms
  4. dern
  5. Derna
  6. Dernah
  7. derne
  8. derned
  9. Derner
  10. dernful
  11. dernier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dernah (page history and authors); Derna (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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