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Gottschalk or Godescalc (Old High German) is a male German name that can be translated literally as "servant of God". Latin forms include Godeschalcus and Godescalcus . Similarly, the Arabic equivalent of the name is Abdullah (عبد الله), which also translates to "servant of God," reflecting a shared linguistic and cultural concept of ...
If the person has more than one given name, one of them is chosen as the person's most called name, by which he is called or referred to informally. Generally for Muslim males, Muhammad, the name of the prophet of Islam, is chosen to be the person's first given name, if he has more than one. Because of the prevalence of this practice, this name ...
Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
Schalk is both a patronymic surname and a Germanic given name. As a given name, with the meaning "servant", it has been recorded as early as the 8th century as Scalco and Scalcho . [ 1 ] The composite given name "Godschalk" or " Gottschalk " (God's servant) was more popular with the higher classes.
Gottschalk's new, larger store in Fresno, CA, shortly after it opened in 1914. Gottschalks was founded by German Jewish immigrant Emil Gottschalk in 1904 as a dry goods store in downtown Fresno, California. [4] Ten years later, the store grew enough to move into another building downtown with ten times the amount of space. [4]
Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements erchan (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious" [1]) and bald meaning "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German Erchambald, Erkanbold, Erkanbald and Anglo-Saxon Eorcenbald. Erkanbald, bishop of Strasbourg (d. 991) was also rendered Archaunbault in Old French.
The word "Odara" derives from the Brazilian indigenous Ioruba word dara, meaning "gorgeous." In Urdu, Dara is a masculine given name meaning "possessor" or "sovereign" and "halo (of the moon)". [3] It can also mean "sovereign" or "lord", a meaning shared with the Sikh language. [4] In Urdu, Dara is a short form of Darius.
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