Just for fun, here are some translations of Khinasi names from Arabic. If a
province isn't in the below list, then I didn't find any meaning for its
name.

Ariya: to be naked
Assarif: the squeaking
Djef el-Kadir: roiled corpse

Binsada: ?
Andujar: stubborn hump
Ber Dairas: land of the students
Ghouref: rooms
Moura: Morea/Peloponnessus
el-Tasri: acceleration

Sphinx
Agradil: unripe brother-in-law
Akhada: to receive
Bair el-Tehara: sea of purity
Irbouda: place where animals lie down to rest
Khousaba: fertility
Meid Ain: eye field
Meid Tarvai: fresh field
Seif el-Avarra: defective sword

Aftane: the smartest or the most attractive
Adaba: to entertain
Ber Tarva: fresh land
Dourat: procession
Jeifel: startled
Kafrin: hamlet
Oused: pillow
Seidre: lotus tree

Sendoure: ?
Baiyuda: egg-laying
Serir Rigal: throne of men
Shirshet: root
Sulaia: forgotten
Tinsouf: blasted

Tarvan Waste: fresh waste
Aghedir: Aghadir (city in Morocco)
el-Kesir: the broken
Mesel: honeyed
Rafr: blindfold
Ras Bedra: cape of the treasure hoard or cape of full moon
el-Sefra: the journey or the whistle or the bile or the void
Tawir: condition

Zikala: ?
Alhazir: the yard
Deired: toothless
Ghada: breakfast
Houran: stubbornness
el-Tehara: purity

Mesire: progress or intestines or travel
Namal: itch

Basilisk
el-Besr: vision

Djira: neighborhood
Alarin: the lion's lair
Meid Assada: lion field
el-Qadr: the value
Ras Assad: lion cape
Ras Ghul: cape of the ghoul
Seiria: strap

Djafra: divination
Cape Hamah: cape sludge or crown cape
el-Deyir: the monastery
Djin Belim: djinn anchovy
Fhirda: gap
Ras Dhoumaire: cape thinness
Sahaiad: insomnia

Khourane: ?
Adeid: numerous
Ayandir: home of the eye
Ber Djin: land of djinn
Ber Falaia: land of the spotted dung beetle
Ras Mhin: despicable cape
Sahadein: two insomniacs
el-Sirte: the path
South Ibnoume: south son of a swimmer
Zulaf: bootlicking

Mour el-Sirad: ?
Ghourin: mud

Min Dhousai: ?
Almein: the loyal
Toure el-Fasil: dividing mountain
West Ibnoume: west son of a swimmer

Suiriene
el-Assire: the prisoner or the difficult or the juice

Ghamoura: to be abundant
Alcamar: the belt

Mairada: to rebel or to be sick

Maze of Maalvar
Cape Aswir: cape of bracelets
Beid: wilderness or eggs
Ras Nabil: exalted cape
el-Saroume: the sharp

Merasaf: delayed supplies
Ber Mera: land of supplies
Cape Rahel: cape demise or flabby cape
Marhab: greeting
Point Qasar: point laziness
Ras Chedin: cape of the gazelle

Avani: intermediate or decaying or timely or stupid
Halaia: to adorn
Khirdai: virgin
Nasri: victory or eagle
Sarma: old shoes

******************
Aleksei Andrievski
aka Solmyr, Archmage of the Azure Star
aka Azure Star Dragon
solmyr@kolumbus.fi
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Fortress/2198/index.html