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Ajda is an Arabic and Turkish surname and given name, [1] and a Slovene word for buckwheat, infrequently also used as a female given name. It may refer to:

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  1. Varnhorn, Beate; Lexikoninstitut Bertelsmann (2008). Bertelsmann, Das grosse Lexikon der Vornamen (in German). Gütersloh: Wissen Media Verlag. p. 14. ISBN   978-3-577-07694-4. OCLC   239608664 . Retrieved 2018-12-15.