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Dobira (Arabic: دُومبِرَ بِنت دَغَالَ{{#invoke:Namespace detect|main}}‎), also known as Dobira Dir or Dombira, was a Somali historical figure.

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Dobira was the daughter of Dagale (Dikalla), the Dir clan chief.^[1] According to an official military survey conducted during the colonial period, Dir members are by tradition believed to be descended from a forefather named Dir. Dir is held to be the great grand-son of Ram Nag, an Arab migrant who landed in Zeila on the northwestern Somali coast.^[2]

During the 10th or 11th century CE,^[3] Dobira married Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti (Darod), a son of the Sufi Sheikh Isma'il al-Jabarti of the Qadiriyyah order, who had settled in northern Somalia just across the Red Sea. The union is said to have given rise to the Darod clan family.^[1]

Dobira is buried just outside the ancient northern town of Haylaan, where Sheikh Darod's tomb is located.

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• Dōmbira daughter of Dagāle